It all began when the Russo’s opened their gate to give their daughters a better view of the sheep. “Once a year they graze for two or three days to clear the overgrowth,” Erin Russo told, and said she had never heard of them crossing over into anybody’s yard. Little did they know these sheep weren’t bashful as they seemed: “The curious sheep were peeking their heads in our back gate for a while but would scamper off as soon as they saw us. Then one came in, which became a dozen in the blink of an eye, and then hundreds. When we tried to corral them out, they would only shift to the other parts of the yard as others continued to flood in through the gate. It happened very quickly.”