Saturday August 18, 2018 I’m afraid I have some sad news to share. We lost baby Claire yesterday morning. 😢 The vet was scheduled to arrive at 9:00 am and that is exactly when she took her last breath. The vet was running late and never got here, not that it would have made any difference. I am heartsick and so is her mom Marcella. Why did this happen? We still don’t know. I took her body to a diagnostic lab yesterday and requested a necropsy. They told me their initial observation showed nothing obvious, that she appeared to be a normal healthy 4 week old cria, but will continue to test tissues into next week. It was not PEM as I had guessed, or it would have responded to the thiamine I gave her. I spoke with 2 vets who agreed with me on that and are also curious to see the final necropsy results. And the day that I stop crying over a loss like this is the day I should get out of the alpaca business. My heart is till in it 100% so we will go on and so will the tears.
Photo of the day: Farmers market sunflowers are doing their best to cheer me up.
Beth St. Thomas
My heart is broken for Marcella and for you.
Louise
So sorry for your lost and for Marcella. it can be something that we hardly have any control like the nile virus. Symptoms are pretty much similar to PEM. Either way, the sadness of losing an alpaca is tremendious.
Judy Okada
I am so sorry prayers for answers
Karen
My heart is saddened by your loss, but what a beautiful quality of the human soul is it that you (we) treasure such “magical creatures”, as Cat Bordhi put it?