There are some folks a few miles down a back country road near here who have a few. Every time I go that way, I always pull over, especially with the grand kids.
The alpacas—4 or 5 of them—always run over to the fence to get their noses scratched. They seem very intelligent. They furrow their brows and stare at us curiously with beautiful eyes.
The girls, yes Andy too, are very curious. New people, cars in the driveway, the dogs, we have horses and cattle on three sides...all the animals interact during the day as they graze.
We take the grand girl to their yard and they will all come up and sniff. If I get out some alfalfa, they all love me. And bring out a camera and they pose for you!
One lady, Gianna’s, has a carrot top hair cut like Lucille Ball. Ziggy is all black except for a bolt of white across her face a la Bowie, hence “Ziggy”.
We've a fella within 3 miles of us that had all kinds of exotics years ago.When we moved to this area 12 years ago; there were 4-5 llamas and a couple of zebra that wandered his 1/4 sq mi property.
These days I see only one lonely zebra and one llama.