Maxine Cher and Sandy Dee Hall, a cohabiting girlfriend and boyfriend in the hipster nexus of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, may not be quite ready for marriage or a child of their own, but they have taken on a baby … lamb, that is.
The farmer at Violet Hill Farm in Winfield, New York, found the lamb, abandoned by his mother and nearly frozen, and warmed him by the fire until he came back to life.
Next, from the March 19 edition of The New York Post:
The farmer then called Hall, the 34-year-old chef and co-owner of Black Tree [restaurant, on the Lower East Side], who orders his pork from the farm.
This time, the farmer wasn’t calling about a meat order. He’d found lost little lambs before, and when Hall heard about them, he volunteered to take the next one.
This time, the farmer wasn’t calling about a meat order. He’d found lost little lambs before, and when Hall heard about them, he volunteered to take the next one.
“Sometimes the moms reject lambs, and they don’t know why,” Hall says. “I’d been wanting to foster one for a while, and he called me up and told me he was bringing down a lamb for me.”
They smuggled the little lamb, nestled in a small pan padded with towels, up to Hall’s second-floor apartment. (To this day, his landlord has yet to comment.)
That night, Smokey slept like a baby, waking up twice, demanding his bottle.
Cher, 24, Hall’s girlfriend of a year, wasn’t really sure they were ready to foster such a small, needy creature, no matter how fluffy.
“I was like, ‘You can’t take care of him, he’s a baby!’ ” Cher recalls. “That night I was supposed to go out, but I was like, ‘Nope, I’m staying here. Forever.’”
Click here to see the rest of Smokey’s story — complete with lots of pictures and short videos.
Image: New York Post/Chad Rachman
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