Mary is a little lamb…her fleece is white as snow…and everywhere that Mary goes her “cart” is sure to go.
Here is our beloved Mary…a little lamb with a great big heart and an even bigger problem…her back legs aren’t working correctly.
Mary was born in Oklahoma…she is a lamb from the sheep tribe called “Kathadin”.
Mary is special and she knows now “how special she is”. She has “special needs” just like humans who are handicapped. Mary cannot use her back right leg which has led to her other back leg being affected.
Autumn Gold and I drove to Childress, Texas to pick Mary up and bring her to our Sanctuary.
Mistie, her first mom, brought Mary to Childress from Oklahoma in order for us to bring her back to Colorado and try to remedy her situation with her back legs.
Mary’s good back leg became weaker and weaker with all the weight she used to move around each day.
We put her companion Kahdatin lamb, Susie Q, with her in a special pen in the back yard of our Sanctuary. We would let them out each day to go and roam around the back yard eating on grass, weeds, and any other morsel that they found to be tantalizing.
Susie Q and Mary were doing well except that Mary was getting weaker in her back legs so that she wasn’t as able bodied as she had been.
I contacted a company that makes “wheel chairs” for many different types of animals to include sheep like Mary…this company can even make a wheelchair for a “turkey”…can you believe it?
They shipped me an electric blue cart with black wheels for Mary overnight and we received it just in time.
Mary had started to succumb to her inability to walk around. She was tired and fatigued to say the least. But when the wheel chair arrived, something beautiful happened. She perked up with hope.
Mary loved her new way to travel from the very beginning. She took to the wheel-chair cart like a baby lamb to milk.
We watched her confidence come back.
We noticed her will to succeed come forward. She actually loved the fact that she was able to move around the back yard unencumbered by her handicap. Right away she took to her wheel chair and started loving her freedom that was created by the cart.
We loved watching her move around the yard…freely, happily, painlessly…she loved her new life that the wheel-chair cart brought to her.
Susie was so happy she jumped for joy as she observed Mary, her friend…the Little Lamb, moving about the yard like she had been unable to do before.
Susie was happy for her Mary that she was free now to experience the back yard with her.
They spent all afternoon munching on many different kinds of weeds and grass.
Mary tried several areas to get through with her cart and guess what? She did it.
She was actually having fun seeing what the cart could do and where it could go.
We have to thank “K9 carts” for their diligence in making carts that work for animals to have a pain-free life as they move about in their freedom.
I had talked to several veterinarians and other companies that had no solution before I found Barbara at K9 Carts.
Barbara offered encouragement for Mary to be able to thrive with one of their specially designed carts. She offered a way for our Sanctuary to be able to afford the cart for Mary where all others I checked with had no way for us to move forward with help for her.
What a beautiful gesture to do for our animal friends, K9 Carts.
So stay tuned for more stories to come about Mary to include more pictures as she jet-sets around…but for now, we are relishing our time spent today watching Mary enjoy her new-found freedom in her “wheel-chair cart”.
Thank you, K9 Carts, for making Mary’s life extraordinary instead of ordinary or possibly an even worse outcome for the sweetest Little Lamb in the whole wide world.
I don’t know how long Mary will stay due to her condition but the words on the Babe Soundtrack epitomize what I feel for Mary, our little Lamb…
“If I Had Words” (Farmer Hoggett) YouTube
If I Had Words
If I had words to make a day for you,
I’d sing you a morning golden and new
I would make this day last for all time
Give you a night deep in moonshine
