OK, so my sister thinks we should buy Alpacas to roam around on the land she is buying (where I am fantasizing about building a yurt). How cute are these things???

The other night she pasted the following into IM from the site she was reading:

• Alpacas are never bathed, and they still have no odor. Alpacas dung doesn’t even have an odor.

This seemed too good to be true, but THEN she said:

• They also tend to all poop in the same spot in the pasture/paddock, making it easy to clean up after them.

And followed that up with another copy/paste:

• Alpacas are not aggressive animals, they are easy to raise, very hardy and require minimal shelter. They are earth friendly animals with clean habits and a wonderful natural curiosity. Alpacas make a variety of sounds such as clicks and snorts but are best known and loved for their humming.

Add all that to the fact that she told me a week or so ago that they have soft padded feet (instead of hooves) and I have a hard time believing these animals are REAL.

So, if I eventually live in a yurt, maybe I’ll get an Alpaca. hee hee

Alpaca photo borrowed from alpacainfo.com.