Beloved Puppet Lamb Chop Speaks Out for Real-Life Lambs After Learning About 'Horrific' Practice (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Lamb Chop and Mallory Lewis.Photo:FOUR PAWS

FOUR PAWS

Lamb Chop, the puppet who has entertained people for generations, is returning to the spotlight with an important message.

The sock puppet star and her “sister,” Mallory Lewis — the daughter of Lamb Chop creator Shari Lewis — are the newest Lamb Ambassadors for animal welfare organizationFOUR PAWS.

“Lamb Chop is my sister. I have worked with Lamb Chop since my earliest memory, first helping my mom as a child, then writing for Lamb Chop, then producingLamb Chop’s Play-Along, and then, with my mother’s passing in 1998, taking over performing with Lamb Chop,” Lewis tells PEOPLE, adding that she and Lamb Chop haveadopted TikTok (@yourfavlambchop) to reach more fans.

The duo felt called to take up the Lamb Ambassador title after learning about live lamb cutting, a practice used in Australia’s wool industry that involves substantially cutting young lambs' buttocks skin without adequate pain management, according to a release from FOUR PAWS.

The organization added that 80 percent of fine merino wool comes from Australia, where live lamb cutting is legal and widely practiced as a quick and low-cost method of preventing fly infestation. FOUR PAWS wants to replace this practice, which mutilates millions of lambs each year, with proper animal management and breeding plain-bodied sheep—animals naturally resistant to fly infestations.

Lamb Chop and Lewis released a video with FOUR PAWS announcing their new roles. The video opens with an altered rendition of the puppet’s famous “The Song that Doesn’t End.”

Lamb Chop and Mallory Lewis.FOUR PAWS

In the clip, Lamb Chop sings, “This is the practice that doesn’t end. And yes, it goes on and on, my friend! Some people started cutting lambs, not knowing what it was. We are going to stop them now.”

“I had no idea what live lamb cutting was or even that it existed. I’m very grateful to FOUR PAWS for educating me, and I am grateful for the opportunity to educate others,” Lewis says, adding before she found out about the “horrific” practice, she thought all “sheep were just sheared” for wool production and that it “didn’t hurt them.”

“We talk about ethically sourced diamonds and ethically sourced coffee. We need to look at ethically sourced fiber not just in terms of the humans who do the work but with the animals who provide the materials,” she adds.

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source: people.com