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Lone llama rescued after month on Pikes Peak
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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: LongElegantLegs

41 posted on 10/03/2009 6:32:36 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono
Obamallama?

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42 posted on 10/03/2009 6:33:48 AM PDT by magslinger (Inside every father is a Bryan Mills waiting to get out.)
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To: Dinah Lord

43 posted on 10/03/2009 6:34:08 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: AUH2O Repub
Si! Llamo Llama Yo!

44 posted on 10/03/2009 6:41:37 AM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs)
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To: JoeProBono

Cuidado!


45 posted on 10/03/2009 6:42:27 AM PDT by LongElegantLegs
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To: JoeProBono

I am glad this got cleared up.I thought the story was about a Tibetan that got stranded.

We all know

a 1 L Lama is a Tibetan monk           
a 2 L lama is a Andean beast of burden       
a 3 L lama is one helluva fire


46 posted on 10/03/2009 6:45:54 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98 )VOTE THE INCUMBENTS OUT)
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To: LongElegantLegs

NO ME DIGAS


47 posted on 10/03/2009 7:24:15 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

Cuanto le gusta (le gusta le gusta le gusta le gusta le gusta le gusta)


48 posted on 10/03/2009 8:02:26 AM PDT by LongElegantLegs
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To: LongElegantLegs

jo soy un hombre sincero


49 posted on 10/03/2009 8:20:29 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

Huevos Rancheros.


50 posted on 10/03/2009 8:40:00 AM PDT by LongElegantLegs
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To: battlegearboat
The Broadmoor
51 posted on 10/03/2009 9:32:42 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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