Three lambs which were ‘destined for the dinner table’ have been saved by a kind-hearted mum who adopted them as pets.<br /><br />The four-week-old babies were at risk of dying after their mother refused to let them feed.<br /><br />Farm shop manager Kay Dawson, 59, heard about the lambs’ plight so offered to adopt them as pets. <br /><br />She has now taken in the lambs, named River, Ruby and Frankie, which she keeps at the Farm Shop in Snitterfield, near Stratford-upon-Avon, Warks.<br /><br />The mum-of-one said: "The lambs would've died if we hadn't taken them in.<br /><br />“It is horrible to say but they would've probably ended up on a plate. <br /><br />"Ruby was a bit weak when we got her, she was the runt of the litter. She's still small but she's doing well.<br /><br />"The lambs are four weeks old, they came to us from a local farmer who couldn't feed them as he had a few sheep who couldn't feed themselves. <br /><br />"They needed bottle feeding and his daughter was struggling so we took them on. <br /><br />"We don't rescue animals as such but we have also given home to two highland cows who are twins and would have been slaughtered as you can't mate twins.<br /><br />"We keep all of these animals and children can come and see them and we let them help feed the lambs now. They are the shop’s pets.<br /><br />"We feed the three of them with powdered milk and warm water and they're getting stronger. <br /><br />"The farmer’s daughter was sad to let them go but it was really hard to bottle feed all of them at the same time. <br /><br />"It's lovely to get people like young children to feed them when they visit us."
