Alpacas – Summer 2017

(-best read with the batman or superwoman theme song in your head, just FYI-)

They can jump over grass as tall as your knee! They can dance and prance too! They are supppperrrrr alpacas!

Now folks we are going live to….to the pasture, where our intrepid local spokes-sheep, Willow, has a few words to say about fly season this year. Yes thank you Scott, Willow here in Morriplum farm’s pasture where the grass is very very green and tasty, but the fly season is badddddddd this year. So baaaddddd that the tall sheep (Your listening audience knows them as ‘Alpacas’, I am told, but to us they just look like tall sheep.) have to wear eye masks. Their eyes being bigger and dreamier (i.e. more watery), so they are prone to flies. We have already had two ‘tall sheep’ be quarantined for fly-strike and pink eye. Fortunately, our humans, Scott and Patri, got to them in time before they lost their eyesight entirely.

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Here is a picture of what they look like. Now you can see why all the visitors to the sanctuary laugh and ask them, “So, what is your superpower?”.

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