[AlpacaTalk] Re: not sure what to do......

 

***Bless your heart Janice! I am glad to hear of such a sad story go so well! I cringe at the animal cruelty that goes on in the world. Unfortunately the same people inflicting this on animals also inflict pain on people. I have two alpacas that act like a dog. John does his chores and these two have to follow him everywhere and stick their nose in his face and give kisses if he lets them. My one girl will stop walking when he does and then just cushes at his feet if we should stop walking and visit. She just waits at his feet. Jody

Jody Ehler*****

How cute is that!
My matriarch, Allie< who passed away earlier this year was like that, just a sweet old girl who would follow me around and rub on me and give kisses.    But I raised her from a baby and she was my only for quite a while so she got a lot of attention and I and my then 2yo dd would go out and prong about with her.  We've not done that with any of the others.
I have one other female who is a sweetie and loves to give kisses and follow me around, but none of my others have that personality.
My Charlie Brown was the most personable funny alpaca I have ever known...and a striking beauty to boot.
I cannot imagine how it came to be that no one ever kept him.   His papers read like a travel log...never one place more than a few months....just one auction after the other.
I think he was extra special to me because of what sad shape he was in when I brought him home....in the back of my Trooper :-).
He was fearful of humans, wouldn't let me or anyone get anywhere close to him.  I so wanted to get that halter off of him, but decided against forcing the issue and just let him be.
I got him as companion to Allie, who was also a rescue - her mom died giving birth to her and the woman who owned her did not want to fool with bottle feeding.  I was thrilled - I had been dreaming of having alpacas for years, but knew I would never be able to afford them.
She was still quite young when I brought Charlie Brown to her....maybe 6 or 8 mos mos old.   She was so sweet and so eager to make friends, she just flirted him up all the time, but he was stand offish, aloof, and didn't want anything to do with her for the longest time.
I finally won him over - against all advice I hand fed him each feeding.   That is the only way he would let me get close to him was if I had food in the palm of my hand.   Slowly slowly slowly he began to trust that I was not going to grab him or reach for him at all.   Just stand there with my hand out, let him eat, and then I would walk away.
We did that for months, before I finally gained his trust enough to get that darn halter off of him.
Allie also finally won him over and they remained inseparable from that day forward.
He would mate the other girls (boys will be boys), but she never let the new stud near her after Charlie passed. Charlie Brown was her only mate.

Thanks for letting me share.
He was very special and I was lucky to have known him....and Allie too.
I miss them both every day.  They were my first and my most special.

Janice in NW GA

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