This morning, The Times reports that staghounds accompanying a stag hunt savaged a pregnant pet alpaca near King’s Nymptom, Nort Devon, UK. The police are investigating the stag hunt. The pet, pregnant alpaca’s name was Ruby. She was owned by Lucy Aylett and her husband …
There are several reasons why alpacas are popular and just one reason why they might not be so popular. I’ll get the unpopular bit out of the way first: they spit. Alpacas are known to have the habit of spitting which humans consider to be …
She is adorable and her name is Annie. She is an alpaca. She travels in an estate car bought especially for her according to The Telegraph newspaper. The journey to becoming a pet and companion animal started, unsurprisingly, when she was rejected by her mother …
You may remember Geronimo, the alpaca, who was slaughtered after a long-running battle between Helen Macdonald, his owner, and Defra which claimed that he had tuberculosis. Geronimo’s owner claimed that he did not because the Defra test was inaccurate. She made that perfectly clear and …
There are only two reasons why alpacas smile a lot: they are happy or their facial anatomy gives us the impression that they are smiling. If they smile when they are happy they are like people which would be unusual. My strong suspicion is that …
