It wasn't quite the overbearing, door-busting ram that interrupted an Ann Arbor family's Thanksgiving, but the Normal Park neighborhood in Ypsilanti had its own bovid problem Saturday afternoon.

Police flocked to the Normal Park neighborhood after receiving several calls of a sheep roaming the streets. Apparently, the animal escaped from its owner Hamed Alissa a short time before calls began pouring in.

Alissa bought the sheep earlier in the day from a Milan farm and was transporting it back to his Ypsilanti home before the sheep broke free and made its way through up and down streets and through some yards.

Sheep on the loose in Normal Park. #ypsiproblems pic.twitter.com/IiQwqgIR7p — Damn Arbor (@damnarbor) December 6, 2014

Dispatchers at the Ypsilanti Police Department said officers drove around the neighborhood looking for the sheep before it was finally spotted at the old West Middle School on North Mansfield Street.

YPD officer John McDonagh and several other officers had to back the sheep into a corner - poking and gesturing at it - while they bought time waiting for Alissa to met them at the school with his vehicle.

They were eventually able to wrangle the sheep with an animal restraint pole, but it wasn't an easy task to get it to cooperate.

The officer had to pull and tug the sheep before shepherding it into the back of the owner's vehicle.

"I'm so glad you guys didn't kill him," Alissa told officers.

During the search, officers used their best puns when communicating with dispatchers.

"It may be going ba-a-a-ack to where it came from," one officer joked.

Another said "I'm glad we could get him baa-a-a-ack safely" as they left the scene.

One thing's for sure, Alissa will sleep well tonight knowing his sheep is accounted for.