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| Name: |
Jypsy's Junebug
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Age: |
One year old
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| Gender: |
Female
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Kind: |
Llama
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| Home: |
Grayslake, Illinois, USA
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About
five months before my fifteenth birthday, I visited a neighbor
who had a herd of around fourteen llamas. For the next year I went to
her house every monday and brushed one llama each visit, until one day
my dad finally said I could have the two-year-old pair that I'd fallen
in love with. We built a fence to close off our pasture, and my dad
and my two brothers built an eight-by-ten 'house' for them. I was
supposed to get them on a Wednesday, but we were finished with their
house two days early, so they arrived that Monday evening. Two days
later when I came home from school (the day they were supposed to
come), there was a cria (baby llama) laying drowsily in the pasture
next to her mom!
I named her Jypsy's Junebug, which is her registered name (Jyspy is
her mom - Chip is her dad), but most everyone calls her Bug. She is a
very affectionate and curious llama, and so far I have trained her to
accept a halter, to lead, to pack (which involves a modified
'backpack' that cinches onto a llamas back, to carry loads up to 90 or
100 pounds), and to lead without a halter - just a lead rope around
her neck. She is remarkably patient, and will stand up to 25 minutes
without fussing (I never taught her that). Llamas have lots of uses,
like packing, wool, milk, meat, guarding sheep, and pulling a small
buggy, but my favorite use of all is hugging!
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