11/01/2025
Friends, as most of you know, 34 is an exceptionally long life for any equine.
For the nearly 20 years Lila lived and worked here at UpReach, she enjoyed extraordinarily good health.
Recently, Lila began to present with significant lameness affecting her balance and coordination.
Her veterinary team determined that the deficits Lila was experiencing are degenerative and age related. Simply put, despite every effort of that very kind, caring and loving veterinary team, UpReach Staff, Volunteers and participants, Lila is very old and can no longer support her own body weight safely.
With heavy hearts, and out of love and respect for her spirit, and in honor of the wonderful work she’s done to improve the lives of everyone who knows her, we made the very difficult but most compassionate decision to humanely release Lila from her suffering.
It is worth noting that on the morning she crossed the Rainbow Bridge there was the most magnificent rainbow over the fields here at UpReach -
Lila's friends were waiting for her.
She will be greatly missed and lovingly remembered by all who knew her.
We invite you to share memories and photos of Lila.
