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Lone llama rescued after month on Pikes Peak
hosted ^ | Oct 2

Posted on 10/03/2009 4:32:59 AM PDT by JoeProBono

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- A lone llama wandering near the summit of Pikes Peak for a month has been captured and is heading to a new home.

Tracy Ducharme and Mike Shealy, both of Black Forest, Colo., trekked up the 14,110-foot mountain Friday to find the little white beast of burden.

They took two llamas with them, hoping Homer's herd instincts would lure him to them. The two split up and Ducharme spotted the llama, which bounded after her llama, Dancer. She then slipped a rope around his neck.

"I dubbed him 'Homer' because of his little odyssey," she said, referring to the classic Greek novel "Odyssey" by the poet Homer.

Ducharme said the llama might lose its ears to frostbite, but is otherwise fine....

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TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: llama; wildlife
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To: paulycy

21 posted on 10/03/2009 5:41:34 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono
Mama Llama Ding Dong!


22 posted on 10/03/2009 5:47:21 AM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs)
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To: JoeProBono

23 posted on 10/03/2009 5:48:03 AM PDT by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: JoeProBono; paulycy

24 posted on 10/03/2009 5:49:13 AM PDT by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: Daffynition

25 posted on 10/03/2009 5:52:00 AM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs)
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To: paulycy
Doilie Llama


26 posted on 10/03/2009 5:53:51 AM PDT by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: Daffynition
Dali Llama


27 posted on 10/03/2009 5:56:11 AM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs)
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To: paulycy
I love your image!


28 posted on 10/03/2009 6:00:07 AM PDT by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: JoeProBono

:)


29 posted on 10/03/2009 6:05:23 AM PDT by MaryFromMichigan
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To: Daffynition
I love your image!

It's good that you do...


30 posted on 10/03/2009 6:07:42 AM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs)
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To: JoeProBono

31 posted on 10/03/2009 6:09:46 AM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs)
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To: paulycy
They must know the deli llama


32 posted on 10/03/2009 6:13:46 AM PDT by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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To: Daffynition
Is he related to the Bahama Llama?


33 posted on 10/03/2009 6:18:15 AM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs)
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To: paulycy
Could be.


34 posted on 10/03/2009 6:21:01 AM PDT by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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Three of these things belong together Three of these things are kind of the same Can you guess which one of these doesn't belong here? Now it's time to play our game (time to play our game).
35 posted on 10/03/2009 6:21:22 AM PDT by urroner
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To: JoeProBono
Good job! Llamas can be hard to see sometimes.

Photobucket

36 posted on 10/03/2009 6:23:37 AM PDT by magslinger (Inside every father is a Bryan Mills waiting to get out.)
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To: paulycy

Como se llama?


37 posted on 10/03/2009 6:23:50 AM PDT by AUH2O Repub (Palin/Hunter 2012)
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se llama Joseto


38 posted on 10/03/2009 6:27:49 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

I’m so glad they got this little guy. (And I’m loving all the llama pics)


39 posted on 10/03/2009 6:29:16 AM PDT by Dinah Lord
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The llama is a quadruped which lives in the big rivers like the Amazon. It has two ears, a heart, a forehead, and a beak for eating honey. But it is provided with fins for swimming.
Llamas are larger than frogs.
Llamas are dangerous, so if you see one where people are swimming, you shout...Look out, there are llamas!


40 posted on 10/03/2009 6:29:18 AM PDT by LongElegantLegs
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