A lamb has gone missing from a preschool near Santa Clarita, leaving teachers and staff worried about her safety.
The 6-week-old lamb named Clover was being hand-fed with special milk, so teachers are hoping they can find her as soon as possible.
The lamb's mother rejected her the day she was born, so one teacher, Denise Vail, started taking the lamb home with her at night and would bring it to school during the day.
Vail said the three and 4-year-olds in her class were close with Clover, who would come to class and take naps.
She is "really a piece of our family here at the school," Vail said.
When school workers arrived at the preschool Monday morning, they discovered the lamb was missing from her pen.
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Vail said they believe Clover was stolen, although they do not know for sure. She does not think it was an animal attack because the hay in the pen was not scattered, and there was no fur or blood found in the pen.
The lamb shared its pen with a miniature goat, and the goat was still in the pen on Monday.
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A family who lives next to the school said they heard voices and sounds of gates Sunday night around 7:30, Vail said. Initially, the neighbors thought it had been the owners of the school feeding the animals, but the owners had left by 5:30 that night.
Vail said she told her class the lamb was missing, but no official announcement had been made by staff to the students
Anyone with information about Clover's disappearance or her whereabouts was asked to call Town & Country Farm School at 661-255-2601.
