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VIDEO: Campaign to help ailing Daisy the llama launched by B.C. farm

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Daisy the llama allows herself to be led by one-year-old Porter Milton. The 15-year-old Daisy is described as surprisingly B次元官网网址榤ild-temperedB次元官网网址 despite being in pain from an untreated abscess. She was taken in by Kensington Prairie Farm in Aldergrove, which has launched an online fundraiser to pay for her surgery. (Kensington Prairie Farm/Special to Langley Advance Times)

Despite an untreated infection that is causing her great pain, Daisy the llama is surprisingly B次元官网网址渕ild-tempered,B次元官网网址 according to Dee Martens, manager of in Aldergrove.

B次元官网网址淪heB次元官网网址檚 so sweet,B次元官网网址 Martens enthused.

B次元官网网址淚 think she knows weB次元官网网址檙e trying to help her.B次元官网网址

Kensington Prairie Farm, which raises alpacas and llamas, was called by the BC SPCA on Nov. 8 to retrieve Daisy, who was suffering from an untreated tooth abscess that had left one side of her face so swollen she couldnB次元官网网址檛 see out of her eye.

Martens described the conditions at the other farm as B次元官网网址渄eplorable.B次元官网网址

B次元官网网址淒aisy lived in a field with metre-high, dead grass and an active burn pile,B次元官网网址 Martens related.

B次元官网网址淥nce we finally caught her, we realized how skinny and terrified she was.B次元官网网址

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A veterinarian who X-rayed Daisy reported that the abscess has caused a break in the bone structure in her face and she would require major surgery.

B次元官网网址淭he pressure and pain that Daisy must be feeling is heart-wrenching, B次元官网网址 Martens commented.

Despite that, the llama is so good-natured that Martens has felt safe letting her one-year-old son, Porter Milton, lead Daisy about her paddock.

Daisy is getting antibiotics two times a day, as well as inflammatory and pain medicine.

Once she is better, she will have company in the form of some other rescue animals at the farm, owner Catherine Simpson said.

B次元官网网址淪he can go with the other old grannies,B次元官网网址 Simpson added.

Daisy is the latest llama in distress to land at Kensington Prairie Farm.

In April, at the behest of the SPCA, nine llama and five alpacas were rescued from another farm that had purchased them in order to qualify for farm status, but 诲颈诲苍B次元官网网址檛 shear them, something that Marten said is essential.

They had such a weight of wool that they had to be tranquilized for shearing after they arrived at Kensington, Martens recalled.

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Revenue from Kensington Prairie Farm admission and tour will still support a childrenB次元官网网址檚 charity in Peru called Quechua Benefit but in the future a portion will also be devoted to the rescue animals, Marten explained.

B次元官网网址淲e have become such an active rescue support system in the lower mainland,B次元官网网址 she said.

A GoFundMe campaign hopes to raise the $3,000 toward the cost of her surgery.

B次元官网网址淲e do not know yet the total cost of surgery, as they will not know until they get Daisy on the operating table,B次元官网网址 Martens noted, promising 100 pertcent of the proceeds will go to help DaisyB次元官网网址檚 recovery.

B次元官网网址淣o animal deserves to be neglected like Daisy,B次元官网网址 Marten said.

B次元官网网址淟etB次元官网网址檚 change the way we see livestock animals.

Simpson and her husband started Kensingtion in 2000, in an area of Surrey historically known as Kensington Prairie County.

They began with a dozen alpacas, and the number quickly grew to more than 30 animals before moving to Langley in 2006, expanding Kensington Prairie Farm from five to 45 acres in the process.

In addition to breeding, raising, and showing Huacaya alpacas, Kensington also raises registered Hereford cattle and produces artisanal honey.



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