It's part of country life

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We had a terrible accident on the ranch and lost a Llama because of it. We all feel terrible about this and it caused us to review our care of all our animals. This Llama got her foot caught in a fence and that resulted in unrepairable injury to her foot. The fence has been there for over ten years with no problem and it was very hard to figure how this happened. We have studied the site and still don't know what happened. Finally we face the fact that Llamas are large animals and when frightened or playing any fence can become a hazard to them. Of course this doesn't help with the sorrow we feel for this loss. We spoke with other Llama owners and while rare others have had problems, few as drastic as ours. All we can do is morn her. With animals being cared for by humans sometimes there is nothing to change or fix, (we repaired the fence),and we can only accept our limitations.