From abseiling down cliffs to doing sheep impressions, inspectors recount memorable rescues in 2022.
RSPCA inspectors had to cut through bracken for over an hour while making bleating noises to encourage it to call back so they could find it on Conwy's Mynydd y Dref, also known as Conwy Mountain.RSPCA inspectors abseil down a cliff face on Llandudno's Great Orme to rescue a sheep"We kept 'talking' to her, getting closer and closer all the time and eventually found her sheltering on a little ridge surrounded by thick brambles.
"After cutting her free and checking for injuries we then followed the path we had just come down, both of us part carrying, part pushing her back up the mountain so she could re-join her flock." He was also involved in a 30m rope rescue with Insp Mark Roberts and other colleagues after a ram became stranded on a ledge close to the bottom of a quarry near Llangollen, Denbighshire."He wasn't injured so was released where he started to graze again," said Insp Roberts.