MY LAMBITION

Four years ago Hayley, 14, hadn't even seen a squirrel, now she's training to be a shepherdess

- SARAH WARD

A GIRL aged 14 is training to become a shepherdess and has saved up to buy two lambs.

Hayley MacDonald hopes to get another two - and would like to have 50.

The teen lives in Friockheim, Angus, with brother Kai, 12, and foster carers Alison Yates, 59, and husband Ron, 55.

The siblings had never even seen a squirrel until they moved to the small village four years ago.

Hayley is shy and does not enjoy school but joined a course last year - Estates That Educate - where she found a passion for sheep, working at Hunthill Estate.

She got a part-time job with Dundee United to pay for two blackface lambs Bonnie and Blossom.

Hayley is hand-rearing them and gets up at 6.30am to feed them.

It has also sparked an interest in reading and Hayley even took the lambs into a care home so the kids could bottle-feed them. Bonnie and Blossom think she is their mum and come running up to greet her she arrives to feed them.