Catherine Stickann fell in love at a small farm show in Columbia three years ago. I went home and told my husband, I think we need to sell the house, move to a farm and raise alpacas, Stickann said. My husband looked at me and said, This has to be more permanent than the hot air balloon.

Cuteness, for fun and profit 
A Jarrettsville farm will hold an open house next weekend to raise awareness about the alpaca, a charming South American creature Irked at being led around the barn on a harness by his owner, Stryker tried to pull away.

Daily News-Record – It s for this reason Schwartz keeps Maid Marian and three other llamas as guard animals on her alpaca farm. Maid Marian s crew isn t alone: The South American beasts of burden are pulling guard duty at dozens of area farms. “Llamas are naturally
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Two dogs kill alpaca in Silver Lake
Hutchinson Daily Leader – She said she s installing higher gates and fences, and the neighbors children will not come over to the alpaca farm unattended again. Kinkade said she will also soon be adopting a Great Pyrenees shepherd dog to help watch over the flock. Great
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SEYMOUR:Alpaca farm comes as a surprise
Waterbury Republican-American – Copyright 2007 Republican-American In a dense neighborhood and on a hill overlooking downtown, there live alpacas. About 20 fluffy, curious creatures living on a farm that’s as out of place in Seymour as alpacas once were in the United States
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Needle felting seemed to be the popular exhibit this year at the second annual Fiber Arts Festival as many were taking wool from alpacas that were present for the event, through to the finished product.

Getting the big picture: The world as a research laboratory for Cornell graduate students 
Every picture tells a story. And the photographs in Cornell’s Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies’ semiannual photography contest tell a story as diverse as the Cornell graduate students who captured them: A smoldering sunset in Weega, Ghana; flocks of breeding barn swallows roosting in Argentina; Peruvian shepherds weaving Ayacucho blankets from alpaca wool.

Staying In 
I f you knit, you can become a felting artist simply by using wool yarn and throwing the finished project into the washing machine for a “fulling” transformation.