Bella Goes Home

Yippee! Today Bella has been given the thumbs up approval by the surgeon at the clinic and tomorrow, she and I shall wend our merry way back to BC.

Four weeks in a full leg and foot cast has been recommended, before fitting the steel leg-brace. We shall have to use the little excavator to lift her up each day using the special Llama lifting sling we designed especially to get her into the vehicle to begin with. Hopefully, she will quickly gain the strength and technique to stand by herself.

Another idea which worked very well was to lay a mini-bag (a one ton oat sack) on the floor of the pick up before laying down some straw. In this way, once we had arrived at our destination we could just grab the handles and gently slide her out onto the mobile loading ramp at the clinic, without having to handle Bella, who couldn't stand without assistance anyway. We shall use the same technique going home - sliding her out onto a bed of hay instead.