FOXBORO - Have we got some news for you, Bo Peep.

A large ewe that escaped from a farm truck in Franklin about two months ago has made its way through Wrentham and down to Foxboro - eluding state police and animal control officers in three towns as it wandered south o'er hill and dale.

"Nobody can catch it," said Foxboro Animal Control Officer John Hazeldine. "It just eludes everybody."

The sheep for the last few weeks has been spotted nibbling grass and brush on the right of way at Interstate 95 and Interstate 495 in Foxboro - living in clover in the cloverleaf.

"She has the ability to vanish into the surrounding countryside," said Wrentham Animal Control Officer Sue Thibedeau. "Her color, light tan, assists her in disappearing. She didn't want to be caught. She likes her life on the lam." Responding to calls, Thibedeau has chased the fleeing fleece a dozen times since September.

Thibedeau said the sheep looks full grown and appears to weigh about 150 pounds.

She spotted the vagrant one day near the temporary Wrentham Town Hall on Stonewall Boulevard. She saw it the next morning at Wampum Corner at routes 1A and 121.

Franklin Animal Control Officer Cindy Souza first saw the wanderer on King Street in late September, when a driver, who was making a farm delivery, notified her that a full-grown sheep had escaped from his truck.

"She's very fast," Souza said.

Souza saw the ewe making for Summer Street, which goes under I-495 in Franklin. Which may explain how the fugitive got involved with the state police - and wound up in its fall quarters in Foxboro, just off the Exit 13 ramp from I-495 South to I-95, seven miles from where she first leaped off the farm truck.

"We've been looking, yep, but can't get it," said Trooper Gale Bettinger from the Foxboro barracks. "They say it's been going on well over a month."

"It's hanging around the same area. It's obviously getting food and water," Hazeldine said.

Wearing his T-shirt a few weeks back, Hazeldine scratched his arms venturing into the thicket after spotting the sheep and trying to rescue it.

"It's smart enough it stay out sight most of the time," he said.