August 22, 2024 | Written by Emily Daily on Garden & Gun
The saga began on August 4 when the site manager, Paula Gillikin, received a report that a foal was born the previous weekend. The next morning, Gillikin visited the island and found the female foal with her dam, but it was obvious the filly wasn’t acting normally—she wasn’t nursing well and showed signs of gastrointestinal pain.
After observing the youngster’s abnormal behavior for several hours, Gillikin conferred with the reserve’s veterinarian and the Cape Lookout National Seashore’s wild horse herd manager, and they decided the filly needed immediate veterinary intervention.
