June 15, 2009

I'm baaaack! I didn't think I was ever going to get back into the house and on the computer but I finally convinced the humans that I really needed to. I have so much to tell you!

I had a couple of dates in December with Friar Tuck and I think I am pregnant! I can't wait - If I am right I should be due around November 23rd. I wonder what I am going to have!?! My dam had a light fawn boy out of him last Thanksgiving... I'd really like to have a girl though.

Since I have been growing into a beautiful 'paca woman everyone is saying that they cannot tell me and my dam apart. I think that is a compliment - she's so nice. She nurses her babies so well that she gets to eat in the "dining room" these days so that she can keep weight on. The dams that eat in the "dining room" get extra pellets and alfalfa. Have you ever had alfalfa? I tasted it once and I hope that I get to have some when I have my baby because it is yummy!

My little brothers are doing really well. Dougal looks just like our dad and he won a fifth place at last year's show. He wants to "be a man" and I heard them say he may get a chance this fall. Too bad he's my brother!

Quinn is getting to be sort of a pain. He is seven months now and has started to bother Princess Lea. It's not all the time or anything but whenever someone has a date he chases after her and pretends. She knows just ho0w to handle him and spits right in his face! I always laugh when that happens.

My dam and auntie Whitney are going to have their babies in the beginning of November. I'm going to have mine (I am pretty sure) when "grandma" Clara has hers. She hasn't had a baby for a couple of years now. She's fourteen years old now so the humans give her lots of time in between. Clara told me she'd like to have a girls this time since she's had lots more boys.

My best friend Emma was going to try to have her first baby when I had mine but she decided to wait. It looks like she will try for next May. She actually had the nerve to have her date with my man! That caused some problems between us but he explained over the fence that she was nervous about everything and he was patient and showed her what needed to happen. I guess that's okay. Gee, what will that make our babies? Half sisters?

We have two new families here on the farm. There's the family from Florida - The mom is Holiday Weekend, the daughters are Princess Curiosity and Black Perl and the son is Mark Anthony. Princess was supposed to have her first baby next spring but it is looking like she maybe is going to wait until fall of 2010. She was really clueless about what we all were trying to tell her. Now that she has figured it out it is too hot pretty much for any breeding...

The other family just came on Saturday. Well, sort of. Princess Lea was here already since she stayed to be weaned after her dam went home after breeding with Victor. Now her dam is back (and she actually tried to see if she could nurse again!)and this time they brought an alpaca called Carousel and her little boy, Mangini. He's Victor's son. Carousel just had a date with Archer. It was his first time but the humans said he did a good job. Actually, what they said was that he had better do a good job or he was going to get gelded! Ouch. It wasn't his fault it was his first time for Pete's sake. The humans control that!

So, we have lots of new 'pacas here and pretty soon the back yard is going to be all for us females and our babies. That will be nice and we will all enjoy being able to spread out some more.

Already they are showing me the door! I don't know why they just don't get me my own lap top... Maybe because I don't have a lap? I think next month their friend is coming back with her machine that looks in my belly to see if she can see my baby. She said she saw it but I didn't cooperate so well. I will try to be still the next time so everyone can see. Then they will have to let me back in to tell you!

I'll be back soon!

Velvet....