They really don’t like canids (dog, coyotes) but ours were pretty agnostic about people. Never did anything aggressive towards people but would always chase the dog away even after years of him trying to make friends. Although they were never physically aggressive the spit like fiends when being sheared, I would be covered from head to to with green slime that smelled like a combination of vomit and death.
My wife’s aunt, north of Ft. Worth, has alpacas. Expensive ones.
Coyotes kept eating the babies, so she got guard dogs: Great Pyrenees, who are big enough to kill a coyote and instinctively imprint on the guarded animals (sheep, goats, alpacas, whatever) so that they consider themselves just part of the family (in this case alpacas).
The dogs just hang out in the field all day with the alpacas, scanning the horizon for threats. They don’t mess with the alpacas, and the alpacas don’t mess with them. They just hang out.
I got one of the Pyrenees’ offspring. He lays on his butt all day in my back yard, scanning the (tiny) horizon, and protecting my cats, who he thinks are part of his family, but who really hate him.
Anyway, if a person gets alpacas, the babies are going to get eaten, and I recommend a guard dog.
My wife’s aunt, north of Ft. Worth, has alpacas. Expensive ones.
Coyotes kept eating the babies, so she got guard dogs: Great Pyrenees, who are big enough to kill a coyote and instinctively imprint on the guarded animals (sheep, goats, alpacas, whatever) so that they consider them selves just part of the family (in this case alpacas).
The dogs just hang out in the field all day with the alpacas, scanning the horizon for threats. They don’t mess with the alpacas, and the alpacas don’t mess with them. They just hang out.
I got one of the Pyrenees’ offspring. He lays on his butt all day in my back yard, scanning the (tiny) horizon, and protecting my cats, who he thinks are part of his family, but who really hate him.
Anyway, if a person gets alpacas, the babies are going to get eaten, and I recommend a guard dog.