A 14-year-old boy has found himself playing mother to a baby lamb with an identity crisis.
Jake Collier is currently caring – night and day – for a little lamb that looks more like a baby Friesian calf.
Jake agreed to bring-up one of three Jacob Sheep lambs born at his home at the Axe Valley Animal and Bird Sanctuary in Axminster.
The teenager had to step in after it became clear their mother could not care for all of the triplets.
Jake’s mum Jayne said: “Jake has taken it in his stride. He’s never raised a lamb before, but we’ve said it’s his animal and he’s very independent.
“Feeding it every three or four hours certainly gets him out of bed in the morning.”
Wildlife Park proprietors Jayne and her husband Andrew bought four sheep last year as “something different” to add to their collection of meerkats, miniature ponies and parrots.
Jayne said: “We are looking forward to taking the lamb outside. The sun has started to shine, but it’s so cold they are having to stay indoors.
“The lamb looks like a black and white Friesian calf. When we first got it, everyone thought I’d bought a black and white cow.”
Woman lost weight with imaginary gastric band
A South Yorkshire woman lost six stone – after her mum hypnotised her into thinking she had a gastric band fitted.
Danielle Davies, 26, turned to hypnotherapist mum Bev Davies, 48, for help after her weight shot up to 14st, reports The Mirror.
And 18 months after the 25-minute session, she has dropped from a size 18 dress to an eight and weighs eight stone.
Junk food and comfort eating after splitting from her boyfriend had made the teaching assistant pile on the pounds.
She said: “I can’t thank mum enough. I’m so thrilled with my new figure. I’d tried every diet going and hypnotherapy was a last resort.
“When mum suggested it, I had visions of bursting into laughter as she tried to put me under.”
Davies, a hypnotherpaist for 20 years, said: “Hypnotising patients is one thing but putting your own daughter under is another. But I found Danielle was a surprisingly good patient.”
Honesty pays for homeless man
An internet campaign to reward a homeless man who returned a diamond engagement ring to a woman after it fell into his cup has raised more than £100,000.
More than 7,000 people have contributed to the fund to reward Kansas man Billy Ray Harris, with 78 days to go before the 90-day appeal ends.
The campaign was set up by the fiance of Sarah Darling, who accidentally dropped her engagement ring into Harris’ cup while giving him spare change.
Harris discovered the ring about an hour after Ms Darling gave him the money and, although he says he knew it was incredibly valuable, decided to hold on to it, rather than cash it in.
“The ring was so big that I knew if it was real, it was expensive,” Harris told local television station KCTV.
Harris, who usually sleeps under a bridge, said a distraught Ms Darling returned to him two days later after failing to find him the previous day.
He told a reporter: “She squatted down like you did right there and says ‘Do you remember me?’ And I was like ‘I don’t know, I see a lot of faces’.
“She says ‘I might have gave you something very valuable’. I said ‘Was it a ring?’ And she says ‘yeah’. And I said ‘Well I have it’.”
Darling’s fiance Bill Krejci was so moved by Mr Harris’ kindness that he set up the GiveForward.com donation page.
Harris added: “My grandfather was a reverend. He raised from the time I was six months old and thank the good Lord. It’s a blessing but I do still have some character.”
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