My wife and I were walking our two dogs the other weekend when we happened across a wayward lamb.

It seems the lamb had decided to test the theory the grass was greener on the other side of the fence, but was now pretty confused about life given its mum was still on the other side and there didn’t appear any way back.

The lamb had obviously been separated for a while because it rushed up to us like we were long lost friends.

Now our two dogs didn’t have a clue what to make of all this. Their leisurely stroll had been shattered by this bleating ball of wool which had confronted them in the centre of the road without a fear in the world. The lamb eyeballed the dogs, clearly summing up whether they were friend or foe; the dogs stood frozen – unsure how to react to this strange and confronting visitor.

It was a true Mexican stand-off as the three animals tried to decide how they had actually got to this point, what their role in this meeting should be and what exactly should happen next.

But before the dogs could react it was the lamb that decided it had perhaps bitten off a bit more than it could chew with this confrontation.

The lamb let out a massive bleat which set the dogs back on their heels and charged off the road back towards the fence. A metre or so from the fence the lamb just took off – soaring through the air and headlong into the wire.

With its head, shoulders and torso through a ringlock square, the lamb dangled by its back legs. But as we pondered how we were going to remove it from this dire situation, the lamb calmly pulled its legs through the hole.

The lamb then took off across the paddock bleating excitedly to all who wanted to listen about its big adventure.

Yep, the whole thing would have been a hit on You Tube.