An eight-year-old girl has struck up an inseparable bond with a sheep after she helped nurse it back to health when it was rejected by its mum as a lamb.
Lacie Pattinson from Brough, Cumbria, found Lucky the sheep "close to death" as a lamb, and took her home to help bring her back from the brink with "cuddles" - forging a friendship in the process.
The schoolgirl's mum Hayley Pattinson, 37, says Lacie is now best friends with Lucky and even threw the sheep a party to celebrate her first birthday.
