I finally decided this was during an online game. Best guess.
Ear in twitter world and fakebook there was an interactive game called ?Farmland? or sum such.
The challenge (I think) was to build the cutest farm. I was constantly getting solicitations from kids looking to get rid of some animal...usually a black sheep (negative points??).
I always gave them a price and then asked them over for a roast lamb dinner.
The dopes have been caught three times communicating with online games. So this will now be the fourth time.