A village is being terrorised by a “nightmare” gang of sheep who are breaking into gardens, knocking down walls and eating people’s hedges.
The flock have run riot in Godre'rgraig, Wales, for several weeks and efforts to find their owners have proven fruitless.
Fed up residents find the animals in their gardens and chase them away, although they soon return and in greater numbers.
Neighbour Stephan Jones claimed they are “setting up camp” in different homes.
The 37-year-old said: “It's been going on for at least four or five weeks.
"I got up one morning and there were two sheep in the garden so we shooed them on and they just kept coming back and back and back.
"They're everywhere, there are two who like my garden but other people have different groups that go in their gardens. So they're setting up camp in different homes.
“The whole village is full of them now, there's probably 30+ feral sheep. There's literally mounds of sheep muck and it's everywhere."
“They're eating the hedge as well, we've got a really mature hedge and they've ripped holes in it through to next door.
“It's a nightmare but we've given up chasing them away now because we chase them away and they've got nowhere to go, so they just come back," he told WalesOnline.
Stephan said he had a close call around two weeks ago when he almost hit some sheep roaming on local roads.
He said: "I was driving around the corner doing about 20mph and there was a ewe and a lamb running down the street in the middle of the road, I nearly went into them.”
One local dad added his children were no longer able to play outside due to "mounds of sheep muck" in their garden.
Many residents have shared concerns of the roaming sheep who have been spotted in the middle of local roads and on the nearby A4067 bypass.
Councillor Rosalyn Davies for the Godre'rgraig ward, who has been trying to get to the bottom of the issue since March 6, said: “I'm surprised that there hasn't been an accident to be honest.
“We have been trying to find out the owner, we did think it was a certain farmer but it's not who we thought it was.
“It's been ridiculous, they've been going into gardens, damaging things.
“A drywall was knocked down in one house and they've been eating hedges and plants. It's been a long time.
"It’s not fair on the sheep either, it's not their fault."
