Alpaca with Attitude !!!....

Well, the story begins on Sunday evening when I brought the girls and babies in for their bed time. I shall set the scene, I have a multi coloured black and white female called Minstrel, she has a lovely rose grey baby called Zanubis. So as usual all came into the shed for bed, I noticed that Zanubis was covered in Docking stalks all over him, he had obviously collected them up through out the day !!!!...so my big mistake was I thought I had nothing to do but take them off him.....however Minstrel had other ideas and the saga started. I must point out that although Minstrel will happily refuse Zanubis his milk, he feeds only when she decides !! and she does not mess about with anyone, or any alpaca. I made the big mistake of daring to touch her baby !! and the experience was memorable, needless to say I was drowned in a Spit Fest !!!!! which lasted what seemed to be an age, simple task turned into a quest of the night....I was covered from top to toe in green stinking alpaca spit !!!! not a nice experience, and I still had the docking stalks to shift. At one point I was that fed up of her, I thought I'd fight fire with fire and I must admit to having a bit of a lack of sense of humour failure, so I decided to drown her with the water out of my bucket, I thought if she can spit, then so can I....I have to admit that I did soak her with a few good handfuls of water out of the bucket !!!!......I was stinking and she was soaked, both of us at this point were sulking a bit, she stopped spitting and I think she got the message...she then went into the huff, dropped lip and started drooling. I was then allowed to sneak up on the baby and carefully pick off the stalks. Thats all I wanted to do in the first place.

I must say, that Minstrel I think has a dual personality, it was just this summer, we used to share a lovely alpaca moment, she used to come over to me and lie down, we then used to have regular cuddles, she would lie there all day enjoying the moment. However I suspect that this is due to her now being pregnant !!! shes got her attitude back, must be the hormones !!!!!