Lillyput is a personality
He wants to savour every moment of life
From the perspective of an Aiderbichler
Numerous emails and phone calls tell us every day about animals that need help. A few weeks ago, we received an email that expressed in touching language what an animal-loving lady felt for a young, deformedso-called “Schmallenberg–lamb”: love. “(…) Lillyputcouldn’t stand and yet wanted to live for “the hell of it”. … He seems to want to savour every moment of life (…)“. She asked for the young sheep to be taken in, and so Lillyputarrived at Farm on 13 May. May to Gut Aiderbichl Deggendorf.
A disability condemns neither humans nor animals to die
Animals with handycapaccompany Good Aiderbichl from the beginning. So there was the dwarf ox Lillyputwith the artificial anus, Pamplono, the young ox ohne fur andits best friend, the dwarf Fipsi. The blind horses Koby have been with us for years, Sabrina and the blind donkey Noldi. Our pot-bellied pig Clemens has a crooked cervical spine. One that is no longer alive: Bieni. She was an experimental goat and due to a failed injection, she lived for years with a crooked, curved cervical vertebracolumn. Many of our animalshave a handicap, but they all have one thing in common: the will to live and the right to live. This view is one of the components of the Aiderbichlerphilosophy.
Schmallenberg - Virus in lambs
The virus and its effects have been observed in cattle and sheep since 2011. Transmission of the infection occurs through insect bites (bitesand mosquitoes). If the ewe is infected by a bite within a certain period of pregnancy (in sheep between the 30th and 50thday), the virus can enter the uterus and cause malformations of the limbs and brain in the embryo.
Lillyput had from day one massive neurological disorders and epileptic seizures, which are now almost non-existent. The owner told us that Lillyputwas soon able to stand, albeit unsteadily. She splinted the crippled frontlegswith small, self-made splints. So he soon managedto run relatively briskly withhis artificial support. Even no air jumps succeed for him. With Schmallenberglämmern it can happen, that dhelower jaw is missing. Lillyputhas aen lower jaw, dhehas grown somewhat transversely, however, which doesn’t stop himfrom eating the grass with relishagain.
Nobody knows how long Lillyput will live
What Lillyput conveys to us is pure joie de vivre. The staff in Deggendorf love him for his light-heartedness, his will to live and are also grateful to be able to learn from an animal again:
Accept yourself as nature has given you. Everything has its purpose.
