In October 2023, Barbara Bucheli visited Villa Bunterhund, where she purchased a fluffy warm Jumppa Pomppa sweater. Why, you ask?
For that, we travel back to the beginning of a cool, rainy autumn of the same year – more precisely, to a day when the two lambs Spongebob and Patrick arrived a little prematurely. Even then, everything indicated that Central Switzerland would experience a particularly cold winter. Rainy days, low temperatures, and many cold hours awaited the farm and the happily rare animal breeds that found a home with the Bucheli family.
Unfortunately, the impending cold winter also meant that the two fluffy lambs would likely not survive the cold. Even the veterinarian who was called couldn't give Barbara much hope.
Slightly disheartened, but determined not to give up without a fight, Barbara made the stable cozy, comfortable, and warm, yet she knew that the two sheep would need more than just a few cuddly beds, plenty of insulating material, and food to have a real chance of surviving the winter.
While Barbara was setting up the stable, she remembered the time they had cared for Pony – a delicate little lamb. Back then, they had raised the small creature in their house to ensure optimal warmth and to nurse the lamb back to health – not least with the help of a sweater from the Villa Bunterhund Boutique. The little creature had survived the winter well thanks to the family's efforts and lived a happy life thereafter. "Why not try the same with the two newborns?" she asked herself.
However, as fate would have it, space in the house was too limited to allow for species-appropriate housing of the two animals, and so Barbara found her way back to Villa Bunterhund to purchase a fluffy warm Jumppa Pomppa sweater that would keep the much weaker lamb, Patrick, warm.
With his new sweater on, Patrick – the little lamb – was initially eyed strangely by the others. "What is he wearing?" the other sheep seemed to wonder. But little Patrick snuggled into his Pomppa sweater, and with each passing day, the lamb became stronger, livelier, and bigger, and suddenly Patrick no longer froze and shivered when the wind rushed across the fields and blew through the cracks in the stable. His brother, Spongebob, who had been stronger until then and therefore did not have a sweater, unfortunately passed away one night. The winter gusts had become too cold. All the greater was the joy about Patrick, who continued to grow and thrive, and perhaps relished life all the more for his brother.
Snuggled up with his sweater and the other animals in the stable, he enjoyed the contemplative time and dreamed on the cold winter nights, warmly snuggled, of spring and the wide meadows over which he would soon gallop.
