Dead and injured lambs found in a ditch on Urk: ‘exhausted’

One of the injured lambs nearly died before help arrived. “It was so pathetic,” Ron Groenink of Dierenambulance told EditieNL. The sheep’s owner had put two injured animals in his car. Groenink decided to look a little further. “At the end of the dam I found a lamb that is no longer alive. His guts were sticking out of his body, so it was painfully clear to me that there was more going on here.”

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Groenink learned from both the farmer and the local residents that local residents are regularly disturbed by young people who cross the dam on their bicycles in the field. “The lamb owner told me that these boys were driving in residential or industrial areas but were chased by the police. They were no longer allowed to drive there and started looking for new land.”

According to local residents, young people nowadays do their thing on set. This is closed to cars with a sweeper grille, but motorcycles can pass through it.

But the lambs are there too. Animals are used to resting as normally only pedestrians and sometimes a few cyclists pass. The sheep farmer told Groenink that they slept on the asphalt at night. “I don’t know why they’re doing this because there’s plenty of room in the grass. But you don’t see them in the dark or you go to bed too late if you run too much. The sheep breeder thinks so. They are unlikely to be shot.”

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Groenink filed a report with the Urker police. “They thought they had solved the problem of young people crossing the street, but that is not quite the case. Now they go patrolling in the evenings, that reassures me.”

Groenink posted photos of the lambs on Facebook and asked witnesses to come forward. “I’ve already gotten a lot of feedback about how pathetic it is and people will be careful. One woman even said her stepfather regularly rides his bicycle to keep an eye on things.”

How are the lambs doing now? Groenink doesn’t know either. “I’m worried about the lamb that got hurt like that. It took twenty minutes for the shepherd to get out of the ditch. I hope the animal survived.”