Fairfax County teachers are used to shepherding their students though many challenges during the school year, so perhaps it wasn’t too much of a stretch for Lees Corner fourth grade teacher Katie Talbot to come to the aid of some lost sheep in her Virginia Run neighborhood on April 13.

Having a regular Saturday morning, Talbot didn’t expect to get a knock on the door from a friend who said, “Um, you have sheep in your front yard.”

Talbot ran outside, “and I baa’d at them.”

The sheep “moseyed” around her cul-de-sac, and with the assistance of her mother, she herded them against a neighbor’s fence. At that point she called the Fairfax County non-emergency police line and awaited the arrival of police officers to herd the sheep into the neighbor’s fenced yard and await the arrival of animal control officers.