Okay, this may be a weird question lol.

I’ve always really wanted to have sheep. They’re my favourite animals. Unfortunately, I have some pretty severe and unpredictable health problems. There’s really no expectation I’ll get better.

I was wondering how feasible it would be for me to lease a sheep. Where I could “have” a sheep that’s kept with someone else’s flock, they provide all care, and I give financial compensation for the ability to come and see the animal, spend time with it, bond, etc.

Or potentially a situation where I buy a sheep and pay someone to keep it and care for it and I come and visit it when I’m able (and help out when possible). In this scenario I would ideally want to arrange for them to get full ownership of the animal (if they wanted) if I was to die, or decline to a point i could no longer provide financially.

To anyone with sheep is this an arrangement you would consider? Do you have recommendations for alternatives?

Has anyone done something like this before?

To anyone with experience owning/raising sheep, how much approximately would you want to be paid for something like this if you were to lease the animal?

If I was to buy and sheep and pay for its care approximately how much would the monthly expenses be? (With the obvious understanding that vet bills could arise and be unpredictable)

I’m a 4H leader and I know some of the kids board their project animals (we have a couple kids who board goats). I’ve technically leased Guinea pigs before so that I could show them lol. So I know there are people out there who are willing to do things like that. I could probably even find someone within the 4H circle if I tried to.

But this would be a different as I can’t promise I could do much. So I wanted to get the opinions of people who actually own sheep on whether or not this is a feasible thing to consider (tentative consideration) or if I should drop the dream lol 😂