I have had annother update from Dianne Summers – the brave lady from Cornwall who along with Richard vickery is attempting to get the Camelid community to face up to the TB issue. Dianne has very bravely put a link to a video of one of her beloved Alpacas in his last days up for all to see.
Raphael had a very characteristic cough – one which any Alpaca keeper should be on the look out for as it could mean there is a serious problem. Any of you out there who keep Alpacas, I urge you to look at this and listen carefully. If any of your animals sound like this then get a vet to check them.
I am really to scared to watch it….but it sounds terrible:(
By: Jody van Dooijewaard on November 13, 2009
at 12:52 pm
Hi Jody,
Don’t be too scared. The Alpaca looks really well and the cough is nothing dramatic but it is apparently (according to Dianne) very characteristic. The point is to show other owners that even though your animal looks perfectly well it could have TB so anything with a cough must be checked out.
By: devonfinefibres on November 13, 2009
at 4:57 pm