Please Don’t Kill Geronimo :((

[Bobbisox1]

Geronimo: Minister urged not to allow 'healthy' alpaca's death https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-58114686

[bednobs]

its not healthy tho

[Bobbisox1]

His owner said he’s shown no sign of illness since he’d had two tests when he came from NZ

[LeonBlank1995]

Can you post a link to the signing petition thingy. I am really too old for this computerised malarkey. I would sign it. Poor creature deserves better.

[Bobbisox1]

I don’t think there’s a link to sign Leon, it’s in the national news

[Barmaid]

This has been to Court and decided upon with evidence which states he has tested positive. Much as I feel for Geronimo's owners, sadly, I see no alternative.

Many farmers will see their livestock killed as a result of positive tests for bovine TB and sadly Geronimo is no different.

[LeonBlank1995]

The article says 80,000 people have signed. I am happy to make it 80001.

[Bobbisox1]

His owner says she’ll stand in the
way of ‘the bullet’

BM I hope he gets a stay of execution,I adore Alpacas

[Sqad]

It's a bloody Alpaca for Christ's sake.

My first thought is why it can't be treated with anti tuberculous drugs?

If some reason it can't then the Alcapa "gets it."

[Bobbisox1]

Yes indeed, why can’t it Sqad ?

[Mozz71]

Would it not be prudent to just retest him before he is euthanized?

[237SJ]

Very sad but if he is spared then that would set a precedent for cattle who test positive for TB.

[Sqad]

bobbi.....PP is just around the corner he will have something to say.

[LeonBlank1995]

Stupid question, but does the BCG injection not work on livestock then?

[Peter Pedant]

erm not sure Sqad
the tuberculin test is to give the test ( Wax D or whatever) and then measure the temp 48 h later.
I am not sure how you assess response to treatment

sweet little wooly alpaca and or TB ?
dead alpaca in my view

Geronimo must DDDDIIIIIEEEEEE!

[Bobbisox1]

Only a few answers but got to be a best one as I know it’s the truth , I too soft , ain’t that the truth

[Bobbisox1]

*Im*

[Peter Pedant]

BCG someone said

too late it is a vaccine and the alpaca is testing positive for the disease.

not Wax D - tuberculin. Koch got a Nobel for describing the cure of TB by repeated tuberculin injections
the only problem is - - - it didnt.

NOW you have to be old ( old that is: older than Sqad even ) before you get your Nobel just in case your discovery turns out to be a pup

[Sqad]

bobbi......it is possible to have a thread WITHOUT a Best Answer..-;)

[Peter Pedant]

yeah sozza about that - delayed by some tomfoolery on the Divine Right of Kings. It appears that some Trump supporters think Prince Charles is gonna claim it.

[Sqad]

Not sure of my facts but:

The bovine bacillus may not be killed by present day drugs.

Treatment, like humans is prolonged and expensive.