Lucy Little has turned Colin Bradley into a bleating heart. The baby lamb was three days old and near death when Bradley, a chef at Mattapoisett’s How on Earth, and his fiancée Erica Turturro first saw her.

While making arrangements for their upcoming wedding at Round the Bend Farm in Dartmouth, Bradley and Turturro found Lucy.

“We stumbled upon the lambs and saw one that was very weak and had been neglected by its mother so we decided to take her home,” Bradley said.

The runt of the litter, Lucy was visibly frail. Farmer Geoff Kinder told Bradley and Turturro that “nature would take its course.”

“We just couldn’t let that happen,” said Bradley.

“We were going to foster her for a couple of months until she could eat grass and be self-sufficient, but then we just fell in love with her.”

Too young to graze, the two began bottle-feeding the baby ewe every couple of hours with goat’s milk from How on Earth.

“She is very fussy. It’s like having a baby,” said Bradley.

Now at almost one month old Lucy Little is starting to pull at the grass behind the restaurant where she spends her days while Bradley cooks.

“She follows me everywhere,” he said.

At night she sleeps by the couple’s bed so she can get her 3 a.m. bottle feeding.

The fifth pet in the home (they also have a dog, a parakeet and two cats), Lucy has taken to napping with the family canine. Cat Marty, however, is still wary of the fluffy new pet, said Bradley.

“I think he’s a little bit jealous.”

While Lucy is growing, she isn’t likely to ever be the same size as most sheep.

Bradley said, “Her siblings were a lot larger and fluffier than her. She missed a lot of colostrum (first milk) from her first days of feeding.”

Bradley and Turturro plan to keep Lucy as long as possible.

“She’s always welcome at the farm if we ever need to bring her back,” he said. “But she’s fantastic. We really, really love her.”

And in case there was any doubt, never fear. Mutton is not likely to appear on the menu any time soon.

“I won’t eat lamb again,” said Bradley.