A shepherd leads a herd during the annual sheep parade through Madrid November 2, 2014. Shepherds parade the sheep through the city every year in order to exercise their right to use traditional routes to migrate their livestock from northern Spain to win
IN PHOTO: A shepherd leads a herd during the annual sheep parade through Madrid November 2, 2014. Shepherds parade the sheep through the city every year in order to exercise their right to use traditional routes to migrate their livestock from northern Spain to winter grazing pasture land in southern Spain. Reuters/Susana Vera
A shepherd leads a herd during the annual sheep parade through Madrid November 2, 2014. Shepherds parade the sheep through the city every year in order to exercise their right to use traditional routes to migrate their livestock from northern Spain to winter grazing pasture land in southern Spain. REUTERS/ Susana Vera (SPAIN - Tags: SOCIETY ANIMALS)

To relieve stress over difficult situations or circumstances, many young people drink, take drugs, overeat, shop or hit the sack with their respective partners.

However, for a 23-year-old male computer engineering student, the best way to relieve his stress was to have sex with a sheep. The young man was caught after other students reported hearing noises from the university's agricultural department barn at 3:30 in the morning on Tuesday, Nov 11.

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Police said the Fresno State student had alcohol. He was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting an animal, but he has been released, according to Daily Mail.

The sheep, used by Fresno's agriculture programme for breeding, is undergoing treatment.

News of the incident reached student Marissa Burkdoll who is in charge of the sheep in the university. She told KFSN, "It's just kind of disgusting and revolting and personally makes me angry ... I mean why would you do that?" She said the student should be jailed for his act, while other students even called for the more drastic step of expulsion.

Other Fresno students who are assigned at the barn were stopped by the school from further commenting on the incident, although some students made fun of what happened through social media sites.

One tweet read: "Baa means baa," while another commented that the incident was "a story that would make you go 'ewe.'"

Actually, men having sex with ewes or female camels has been reported to be quite rampant in the Middle East where these animals are abundant and there is so much restriction in many countries on interaction between males and females that men turn to these animals to achieve sexual gratification.

In the UK, a man was banned from owning pets after police found Graham Redfeam having sex with two dogs.

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But in rich or industrialised countries, what is in are female love dolls who come equipped with movable and flexible anatomical parts designed to give the owner hours of pleasure with no risk of acquiring sexually transmitted diseases.