Rescued Bay Area sheep Timmy aims to become national celebrity

Timmy, a resident of the Funky Chicken Animal Sanctuary in rural Vacaville has been named one of the 10 finalists in the annual Cadbury Candy Company’s “Who Will Be The Next Cadbury Bun…

With Easter around the corner, a local four-legged celebrity is campaigning to become the newest spokes animal for the holiday — and one of its popular candy confections.

Smith said that she was tipped off about the contest by someone visiting the sanctuary’s website and she thought it would be the perfect thing for Timmy. The 20 contestants were trimmed in half for the finals. For that portion, Smith filmed a humorous video of the sheep in his bunny ears frolicking around the farm delivering Cadbury eggs to all of the other animals.

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