Listen to more stories on the Noa app. For Lucca Baila’s third birthday, his mother, Morgan, knew that he didn’t want balloons or cake or streamers. He wanted Lamb Chop, a stuffed-animal ...

Shari Lewis, a ventriloquist and entertainer, introduced an inquisitive puppet with a mop of curly hair named Lamb Chop in the ’50s and featured it on “The Shari Lewis Show” from 1960 to 1963.

Lamb Chop has become a pup culture icon decades after the sock puppet appeared on national television. Pet owners around the country flock to local vendors to get their paws on the hot dog toy ...