Bahama Llama
Written By Inger Wiltz
My name is Bahama
Llama, and as the name implies, I’m a llama.
Although that may be up for debate, because I’ve heard that I’m
both a llama and an alpaca. It’s called a mix. Now that’s enough to make
any poor animal confused.
Personally, I think I’m a big, bad llama. I know for a fact that I’m
living with these goats so I can protect them from the coyotes that roam
outside our fences at night. They wouldn’t hire a little alpaca to do
such an important job! No,
you’d have to be big and scary looking, like me, to be able to handle a
job like this.
But I must say it
isn’t easy to live here with all these funny goats.
Goats can be very annoying, you know.
First of all, they eat everything! They eat their food bowls and
they tried to eat mine too.
And they ate my food, so the humans had to screw my food bowl to the top
of the fence post. See I’m very tall, and the goats can’t bother my food
way up there. Then, when we have visitors, they try to eat people’s
shoes! I don’t think that
gives a very good impression. You should really leave people alone and
let them just enjoy their visit to the sanctuary.
Another thing
these goats are always doing is jumping up on the turned over bucket.
They just love to climb up there and make a racket.
Maybe it’s because they’re so small. Standing on a big tub
probably makes them feel almost as big and important as me. That’s
probably it, but it still annoys me.
Sometimes you’ll
see me walking back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
That’s usually because I’m annoyed at having to live here with
these goats. I’d much rather go and live with the other two llamas that
I see in the distance. But once I walk my annoyance off, I feel better.
Then I realize that I have a very important job to do here: I’m the
protector of all these little goats. And no coyote would
ever dare to come close. So
even if my name is Bahama Llama, which kind of sounds like I’m living on
the beach, like a bum, I’m an important animal here at the Forgotten
Animal Sanctuary. One of the few with a real JOB!
Bahama Llama on the
Job!
Inger Wiltz June
2007
