And then abandoned them when the "cute" wore off and you realize, like all babies, lambs spend all their waking time either feeding or pooping.
Had to bottle-feed a rejected lamb (Mom had twins and couldn't count to "two", thought the second one was someone elses' ) and it's only "Dawwwwwww" the FIRST time. The rest of the time it's you as surrogate Mom, and all the work that entails, at least until they're strong enough to walk around on their own, then they'll at least come running for the bottle. Which happens pretty fast, but no doubt not fast enough for the "I wanna baby lamb, okay, that 20 seconds was all I really wanted" folk on that ranch.
God, I hate the ability to foresee what shitty people will do with 100% accuracy and be unable to stop them.... farming is NOT a Fleisher cartoon where everything is happy and content to the point of dancing around naturally.... there's a shit-ton of WORK and commitment involved. And animals bred for agriculture are usually hearty enough to survive most neglect (unfortunately) , but they sure don't THRIVE.