Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Alan and Angela Mahan left Rabbit Ridge Farms near Bee Branch during a lightning storm Monday morning.

Alan Mahan said Tuesday that he knew immediately that lightning had killed the six Katahdin-Dorper-mix sheep and his livestock guardian dog Buck, an Anatolian Shepherd less than a year old.

Story by: Bill Bowden/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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