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LINCOLN — The family in this story kept their priorities in line: protect their children, try to get the unwelcome animals out of their backyard and capture all of it on video.
This time of year the city of Lincoln employs thousands of sheep and goats to cut down the vegetation before fire season. They are contained by temporary electric fencing and the fences already in place that separate homes from grassland.
Lincoln resident Scott Russo wanted his young daughters to get a better look at the hundreds of sheep grazing behind their home, so he opened his backyard gate.
The sheep took that as an invitation.