Tails Up Homestead sports a token llama as part of it's livestock guardian team. He has excellent hearing...he hears things before the dogs do...but he doesn't have much of a voice. His alert call is basically a low decibel "eek eek." We call him the 400 lb squeaky toy. And "The Freak," because he is such a trip.
Osama has central nervous system damage from meningitis and has good weeks and bad weeks. Last fall, after a really rough 10 days, we called a neighbor to bring his backhoe to dig a hole so we could put Osama (bin Llama) out of his misery. He wasn't moving, an we had done all we knew to do for him. The neighbor drives into the pasture and the llama pops up like a daisy. Stood for the first time in a week, and then proceeded to move in the opposite direction. Hasn't been down since. Showing up for dinner and everything. Am thinking he had A bad day and then decided all the love and attention and room service was kinda nice, so was milking it for all it was worth. But HEY, if you're gonna off me, i'm outta here!!!!
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