Clover the orphan lamb that could

Our little orphaned lamb Clover is beating the odds despite having a cleft palate.

This means she can't suction and it's very difficult to feed. However, due to the huge efforts of her stand-in mum who has never given up finding ways to make feeding work, and Clover herself who has the most amazing nature and has learned to feed without suction, she has astonished the Vet by putting on weight and is bouncing happily about thinking she's a dog in the best of health... For now.

We need to get her to 20 weeks when she will be able to have anaesthetic and a surgery to allow her to eat solids without risk of impaction and drink water herself without aspirating it and getting pneumonia.

Getting her there and the surgery itself is a significant cost.

Clover can't move onto solids without infection risks so we are going to go through a tonne of milk powders and supplements, and most likely some courses of antibiotics for when she does accidentally aspirate as there's a large risk of infections there too.

We are also going to have to build her an enclosure where she can have her space outside but be restricted from grazing things that will be harmful for her, this will involve fencing and construction etc.

The surgery itself will be in the thousands, it's quite a large aperture to close.

Any help is hugely appreciated.