Like mother, like daughter
Lost Creek Ranger Gaiya
Setting the stage ...
Lost Creek Sagehopper and Rocky Mountain Dazzle
A mutual clash of desires
Update from Elahn!
Update from Elahn!
Update from Elahn!
Whatcha doin'????
Gaiya at six months
Changing of the hairs
Gaiya's little pal
Sage update! 4.5 months
Sage update! 4.5 months
Sage update! 4.5 months
Mob mentality
Happy b-Earth Day!!!
Lost Creek Ranger Gaiya
Lost Creek Ranger Gaiya
Still in lockstep
Lost Creek Sagehopper
Lost Creek Sagehopper
Klahowya!
Submissive or "slinking"
Ewww ... what's tickling my nose?
Lost Creek Sagehopper
She's got me coming and going ...
Hi! Can we do something together?
MOM!
New kid, "old" kids
Size difference!
Baby sandwich
Tuckered
New kid on the block (er, farm)
Lost Creek Elahn
Bouncing baby llamas!
Lost Creek Ranger Gaiya
Roll, roll, roll your llama!
If it itches, scratch it
Curious, but cautious
Lost Creek Elahn
Lost Creek Elahn
Lost Creek Ranger Gaiya, four weeks old
Gaiya has a nice butt, too ...
Gaiya, always on the go!
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Slinking ... the same, but different
Elahn is also trying (hard!) to send that "I'm really little [meaning I can't hurt you] so please don't hurt me" message ... but for an entirely different reason.
A few days prior, Elahn was bored and (in llama language) invited me to play with him ... by rearing up and bumping me (fairly hard) when my back was turned. This is (not surprisingly) unacceptable behavior in a domestic animal, especially one that will eventually outweigh me by more than 200%. My response was to immediatly dump Elahn on his side and hold him down for awhile.
**WARNING: I am well-versed in llama behavior, physically fit, and skilled in advanced llama handling (the kind almost nobody else even knows exists, let alone uses). I also know my animals well — this would NOT have been my response with a baby of some other females (who would unhesitatingly attack — Megan in fact RAN over and hummed nonstop, very upset, but neither spat nor struck at me ... because that's who she is). Translation — DO NOT try this at home!!!**
The initial end result is precisely what I needed — Elahn is now firmly cognizant that I am not a plaything, and that thinking before acting is on the top of his list when he sees me. The downside, of course, is that because Elahn's behavior (that triggered my response) was so normal to his world that he can't (yet) figure out what got into me, and so he tells me at every opportunity that ... he's really small and wouldn't hurt me and so pleasepleaseplease don't hurt him.
Eventually Elahn will intellectually puzzle out where the happy medium is, perhaps after doing the same thing to a different human and perhaps not, which is why I don't allow humans without llama savvy in the baby/maternity llama pasture without supervision!
Such are the trials both of growing up (for Elahn) and of raising up young 'uns (for me) ...
A few days prior, Elahn was bored and (in llama language) invited me to play with him ... by rearing up and bumping me (fairly hard) when my back was turned. This is (not surprisingly) unacceptable behavior in a domestic animal, especially one that will eventually outweigh me by more than 200%. My response was to immediatly dump Elahn on his side and hold him down for awhile.
**WARNING: I am well-versed in llama behavior, physically fit, and skilled in advanced llama handling (the kind almost nobody else even knows exists, let alone uses). I also know my animals well — this would NOT have been my response with a baby of some other females (who would unhesitatingly attack — Megan in fact RAN over and hummed nonstop, very upset, but neither spat nor struck at me ... because that's who she is). Translation — DO NOT try this at home!!!**
The initial end result is precisely what I needed — Elahn is now firmly cognizant that I am not a plaything, and that thinking before acting is on the top of his list when he sees me. The downside, of course, is that because Elahn's behavior (that triggered my response) was so normal to his world that he can't (yet) figure out what got into me, and so he tells me at every opportunity that ... he's really small and wouldn't hurt me and so pleasepleaseplease don't hurt him.
Eventually Elahn will intellectually puzzle out where the happy medium is, perhaps after doing the same thing to a different human and perhaps not, which is why I don't allow humans without llama savvy in the baby/maternity llama pasture without supervision!
Such are the trials both of growing up (for Elahn) and of raising up young 'uns (for me) ...
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