SPIT Happens...or Holy Spit, not a Llama!!!

Surely you jest?  A Llama?  Really???  "But the Little Sweetie and her roommate really want one and they need homes." But, Marianne... a Llama?? "No, not one but TWO Llama's.  They are mother and daughter! How can I turn them away?"  "Easy!"  says the great Harvard.  So, listening, like I usually do when he imparts great Harvard logic to me, we now have two Llamas. 

So, off we go to rescue these two furry balls of mangled mess.  "Now what do we do?", asks the Little Sweetie.  "I would suggest that we attempt to drag their giant butts off the horse trailer somehow!"  They had very appropriately decided to lie down and refused to get up.  This was only our first experience with being new Llama Mama's. 

Llama's have a mind of their own and they do not, and I repeat emphatically THEY DO NOT have any sense of personal space.  Until one gets used to Llama's, they will be continually surprised and how they want to come right up and kiss you on the lips!!! These suckers don't care who you are either!  When they want to get to know you, they will make it very apparent!  They will chase you all over the pasture until they get a kiss!  Reminds me of my first date!  I was so scared that I didn't go out with a boy again for at least a  year!!!  I wasn't about to do this with our Llamas, so I kissed them back.  However, if I reached out to pet the Mama Llama, who the Little Sweetie calls Goat, she will make a gurgling sound and throw her head up.  If you don't duck, then you will get hit by a giant, and nasty hocked-up Loogie that only a Llama can produce.  I have learned that when one goes into the pasture, one must keep their hands to their sides or risk being hit by  a Loogie Missile!  My friend Beverly learned all about Loogie Missiles while her daughter was caring for our farm one weekend.  Mama Llama, a.k.a., Goat, chased her completely around the stall just missing her head several times with nasty missiles.  Beverly doesn't want to come and visit them anymore. Maybe she is smart.  They love men though.  Our friend Danny comes to visit and those hussies crowd around him and he can put his arms around their necks and they have yet to offer a Loogie to him!  Some hussies are just hard to understand.  But then again, I've read that Llamas practically STAY in heat, so go figure...

Mostly they are sweet though.  Sammie, my 37 year old pony was horrified of the long-necked Loogie Launchers when they first arrived, but now he beds down with them! Typical male!   Such hussies they are! Sammie is too old to care, so he is a perfect companion.  Secretly Sammie wishes that he were still a stud-muffin though.