Okay, so I had something like 10 zillion BPOs that are all due tomorrow. I am tired, and almost finished (photots are uploading in another window - I'm on satellite internet, so it takes FOREVER). I was looking at one of the pictures and couldn't find out what the brown spot was in the corner.

I zoomed in, and it's an embarassed alpaca! I have never seen anything so hilarious. He looks ashamed to be shaved of his luxurious valuable hair.

I figured any of you who are as slammed as I have been would appreciate a laugh

Good one! Nice hairdo-:))

Slammed here... same satellite grrr... so what am I doing? Checking out agentsonline, of course.

That's a good one.

I wonder if the kids at the local school say "If my alpaca was as ugly as you I'd shave it's butt and teach it to walk backwards" ????

oh no! poor thing! it is pretty funny though..

Thanks Auburn! I have a gazillion to finish before I go out and do a gazillion more. Have to check in before I go.
My husband shaved my Golden Retriever last week. He looks like the alpacha. If I had time I'd post a pic to prove it. I came home and he went and hid in the corner. He knows he's ugly!

I quoted Gary cause I have the same darn satelite. Thought my computer was slow. Isn't satelite supposed to be fairly quick?

So funny! Thanks for sharing

The good thing is, it's so cheap! @!@#$%^%$!!!

It's quicker than phone but it ain't DSL, especially not during the day.

I had never seen an Alpaca until you posted the photo. But this morning I was driving to a listing and guess what I saw?



Yep a whole herd! This was only a few of them. They were all over.

My parents are alpaca ranchers and if you only knew the value in them. I could do BPO's for a year and not make enough to afford one!

So they must be good eatin'.

I guess if you use the neck bones for soup.

That's too funny! My dad will crack up when I tell him that. Since they are my mom's hobbie but he gets stuck feeding and cleaning up the dung!

I really don't know the value of them, please enlighten. I did 1223 BPO's last year, would that be enough, or do I really need to step up the pace to be able to get one?

Can you ride em'?

Do they bark?

What kind of cash you get for the fur/wool.

I wonder if my neighbors would mind....

Look at it's eyes - It is begging you - "Please don't take my picture".

Hope it doesn't get a sunburn -

If I did 1223 BPO's in a year, I know I would NOT be able to afford an alpaca...what with my funeral expenses and all.

Ok, I take that back doing 1223 in a year would buy one. Pet quaility that are just cute and eat your grass start around $1500. Ive heard a stud with excellent blood lines went thru auction at $75,000. That crazy if you ask me!

No you cant ride them and no they don't bark. They humm if they feel threatened. They don't spit like lamas either. They spit on each other but rarely on people. They are extremely friendly and courious. My 2 year old walks all around them in the pasture and they don't even acknowledge her.

The wool is called fiber and it is sold by the ounce unlike wool that is sold by the pound.

And yes they sunburn. My mom buts baby suncreen on the fair colored ones.

They are also all DNA tested and are registered at UC Berkely or UC Davis one of them. They also have micro chips in them for who knows what.

Anyway, back to work!

TOOOOOOO FUNNY!!!!! One of the reasons I keep coming back for more.

Are you sure those aren't long-necked standard poodles??

Auburns alpaca pic looks like George Bush.LOL!

More like a long necked goat

Amplet,

Let us know how it tastes ok? Alpaca... the other white meat!

I would think it would taste like llama.. not that I've tasted llama!

Auburn, that is an amazing picture! Thanks for sharing that!

Here in PA, I'm not far from Amish country, and they raise both alpaca and llamas out there in the hinterlands. There is a HUGE difference between the two animals. Alpaca are relatively small, extremely docile, kept in moderate size herds and used strictly for fur. I have never heard of an alpaca killed for meat. Too valuable for that.

But llamas are a different story altogether. They are usually not herded, but single llamas will be mixed in with a herd of cows (or alpaca., or horses). They are MUCH larger than alpacas, and FAR more aggressive. The reason they are placed with other animals is that they are so aggressive that they will hunt down and stomp to death any other predator such as a dog or a fox or a cat. So they protect the herd. A friend of mine almost lost his dog (a chocolate lab - not a small dog) to a llama one time. They are incredibly nasty and ill-tempered. Worse than bulls, even.

Now, to keep this on topic, which BPO company or asset manager or mortgage company reminds you of an alpaca, and which reminds you of a llama? (ha-ha) Any takers on that?

Pro-teck's qc people are llama's and CC is an alpaca.

In south america they do eat alpaca, but they have so many of them their not as valuable. yuck!

Alpacas are so sociable you have to have 2 or more or they will die of lonelieness. How sad.