ALPHA gets a reprieve!

It was a pretty uneventful day at the ranch yesterday. No new babies (although Nala is getting real close). Star is still shunning the boys' advances. Rick calls her a "silly maiden" that just hasn't quite figured out what to do. How hard can it be to sit? That's ALL she has to do!
Maybe next week.

ALPHA and Scirocco were supposed to move to Boys Town today (my baby, ALPHA, turned 6 months old on May 4th). But, Rick decided to wait a couple weeks because their new field is kinda full. Soon, Landis and Shaq will go to a new home and then we'll move the boys over. I'm happy to see ALPHA gets to stay with Princess through Mother's Day. I know, I'm a wus.

I took Felix out for his walk, and he continues to do very well on the lead. I felt really bad, though, because I walked him into the sun room, through Rick's office, and then on through the house to surprise Rick, Carol & Scott (who were sitting on the patio). Just before Felix reached the door, he started slipping and sliding on the tile floor and totally lost control. He didn't hurt himself, and once outside the door seemed to be just fine. Rick loaned me a 2 videos "Alpaca Training and Handling" and "Click & Reward", which I will watch today. I'm sure they will help me alot in trying to train Felix as a therapy animal and PR for the Alpaca industry. At the end of the walk, Rick weighed him and he is now 84.9 pounds, and will be 9 months old on May 7th.
Go Felix!

I never thought being a travel agent could be meshed into Alpaca ownership. Rick had the idea of organizing a Caribbean cruise for Alpaca owners & breeders, and offering relevant seminars (including Neonatal) onboard the ship. I am very excited about putting something like this together, as organizing cruise groups is what I do best at the agency. It's truly in the planning stage right now, but I believe we will have all details buttoned up and ready to promote the "PACAribbean" Cruise very soon. We're looking at Fall 2008 sailing, giving everyone plenty of time to plan.

At the end of the day, I went out to the main field for photos. It was pretty windy and no one was very cooperative for the camera. Meg Ryan and Fantasia were very interested in my tennis shoes/shoe laces. Maybe they could tell I just washed them. Bella, the newest cria, is as cute as a button and quite independent for her age. Aerosmith sleeps so soundly that when all the main field residents went to the nursery for treats (earlier in the day), he didn't hear them leave. He then woke up to an empty field. It was so sad to see him looking around, and humming, for all his friends (and especially mom). I went out to the field and he followed me up to the barn, just as everyone started coming back down.

Vanilla Sundae is doing great and is just as laid back as ever. She does tend to be very curious when breeding is going on. She likes to hang out at the fence and watch. Sorry, little girl, you've got several months to wait before your first date.

In a nutshell, Star is still a "maiden" (darn it!), ALPHA gets to spend Mother's Day with mom (cool!), and the First Annual PACAribbean cruise in the works.