Escaped lamb leads Fremont police on wild sheep chase

Fremont police chased a sheep on Monday night. Fremont police chased a sheep on Monday night. Photo: Fremont Police Department Photo: Fremont Police Department Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Escaped lamb leads Fremont police on wild sheep chase 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

Fremont police spent hours searching in vain for an escaped sheep Monday night, ultimately locating it Tuesday afternoon, officials said.

The sheep escaped from a yard and was running free through a Fremont neighborhood on Monday night, but no one could catch it, according to Geneva Bosques, a spokeswoman for the Fremont Police Department.

Eventually, searchers lost sight of the sheep, Bosques said. He was found Tuesday afternoon at the Fremont Fire Training Center on Stevenson Boulevard and taken to the Tri-City Animal Shelter in Fremont, where he enjoyed a leafy snack, according to police.

Police have since been in contact with the owner, Bosques said.

“Baby Goat Gone Wild! This goat eluded our staff last night for 2+ hours. He was just located & brought to the #TriCityAnimalShelter,” police wrote on Twitter Tuesday afternoon.

They were quickly informed the goat was, in fact, a sheep, and tweeted an amended hashtag — “#BabySheepGoneWild” — 20 minutes later.

Filipa Ioannou is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: fioannou@sfchronicle.com