You will notice that he still has a halter on. He is the ONLY one of the boys who still has a halter on his head. This is because he's a complete and total brat. You can tell by the set of his ears, and the squint to his eye, that he's plotting hate crimes against all of us.
Oh, sure, I thought, when he first came to live with us, he's a sweet boy. He's just misunderstood. Yeah, he's "misunderstood", in the same way that Ted Bundy was "misunderstood". Folks, Beelzebub is alive and here on earth, and he is an alpaca.
At first, I thought I should leave the halters on the boys, so that we could catch them if we needed to trim toenails or give shots. Then, I learned that alpacas are obligate nasal breathers, which means that they must be able to get air through their nasal passages in order to breathe. Their noses, like human noses, contain both bone (at the bridge) and cartilage (at the end). If a halter is placed incorrectly, it can squish down the cartilage, causing the nasal passages to close.
Once I learned this little fact, the halters immediately came off the other boys. But Solomon's remained on.
Try as we might, we can't catch Satan's Alpaca. He hides behind Atticus so that we can't reach him. He has bat-like hearing, so we can't sneak up on him. He has more moves and fakes than an NBA basketball player. Just when you think you've got him cornered, he zigs one way, you zag the other way, and it's GAME ON again. 'Round and 'round the pasture we go. Through the trees, around the chicken coop, and over (darn it) the poo pile.
Satan's Alpaca has tossed Jerry around like a rag doll--twice. He's spit slimy, green goo all over Tabor. He's screamed every time we corner him, and I'm expecting a visit from the ASCPA any day now, because his screams of rage sound like a massacre.
If he weren't so doggone cute....
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