Eclipse

Hello! I'm Eclipse!

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Pet Pleasures:  Collecting marbles and pogs. ​

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Pet Peeves:  People who underestimate me!

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Arrived at FARRM:  2025

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Sex:  Female

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Age:  2025 

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About: An animal rescue reached out to FARRM to get help with a young goat that had a broken leg. The owner of the goat was looking for someone to take her as he was unwilling to take her to the vet.

 

Recently acquiring young goats to start breeding them for profit, he was not willing to invest any money into her medical care. So, instead of getting the help she needed for a leg broken in multiple locations, she was splinted improperly and left with no additional care for weeks. During these weeks, her tightly bound splint caused swelling around the dressing and the broken off, jagged stick that was used for support was forced into her leg, creating an open, festering wound. Further to this, the splint was placed along the break in the leg, providing no support whatsoever. During these weeks the flesh rotted away leaving exposed bone, and bone that was once healthy was eaten away by infection and multiple other breaks occurred in her joint and below the initial break.

 

What could have been an injury that was easily treated with a cast, stall rest and pain management became a painful, ugly situation that left a young goat with arthritis and no options but an amputation.

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The good news is because she was so young when she came into our care, with no other health issues, she got through her amputation with flying colors. She is full of life and has already adapted to life as a 3-legged goat.