A British woman from Wiltshire discovered she had cancer after her sheep butted her in the breast. Emma Turner (41) was giving Alfie some medicine when he suddenly became aggressive and began head-butting her violently in the chest.
She said, “Alfie is normally really well behaved but that particular day he went nuts and it took three of us to hold him down.” Turner admitted, “It's not a good way to get your breast cancer diagnosed.” But she visited her doctor to check on the bruise received from the butts after she noticed a lump in the middle of it, and a biopsy revealed the early stages of breast cancer. She is set to undergo a mastectomy to remove the tumor after six sessions of chemotherapy over four months.
Alfie, a five-year-old sheep is being hailed a hero by some in the UK and now has a following of hundreds of friends on Facebook. “Alfie is clever - he saved my life.” Said Turner.
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