Alpacas de Gredos: Leaf Grazing -- Our Alpacas Love Willow Leaves
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- This afternoon, I cut several willow branches as a treat for our hembras.
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How interesting! The alpaca communicate very simply with you. She looked up, and you understood!
My cat communicates like that with me, sometimes. No meowing, just looking; and I understand.
Yes, N'za was the first to establish a connection with me -- looking up at the leaves and then looking at me. I am learning that trust is treasured. Do they trust me?
Here are two sad poems I wrote today for a new friend
who lost her alpaca. 11 July 2024
Lost Alpacas
"They're always looking for new ways to die,"
And we who owned them have to wonder, why?
We cherished them; they did not lack for love
And for all that they made trouble of.
Perhaps they were too new to this our nation,
And other livestock cause them consternation:
New diseases, parasites, and stresses
We cannot ward off with our soft carresses.
Are they eager for their souls to fly
Back to the regions holy, way on high
From whence they came, as told in Incan lore?
They have a purpose here, for us to adore.
Alpacas, you would leave but you must stay.
You can't manipulate your dying day!
Suicide is sin, I have to say.
"From the surly bonds of earth" don't stray,
But pleas, do not think alpacas are unkind
If sometimes they may leave us behind.
Sudden Departures
Alpacas die fast.
One day they seem to be fine,
The next they are gone.
Alpacas hide pain.
We say they are stoic.
They're a prey species.
Weak ones get eaten first.
We are the predators.
We show our feelings.
Death is such a shock.
Was it from a broken heart?
Our hearts are broken.
To own alpacas
We must be prepared for this
(But we never are.)
I hope that I can delay the sadness you describe. I realize it will happen, but for the moment I can live in my innocence.
In Wisconsin weeping willows were traditional cemetery plants.
My father did not like them because of that. He had been
a tombstone salesman; when I was young he took me to
the cemetery to see the stones he had sold door to door.
What an strange experience that must have been!
Willows are Salix and the sali in acetylsalicylic acid. I wonder if
the alpacas feel the pain relief when they eat willow leaves and
willow bark. Do they get high? Aspirin is a trademark of Bayer and
only Bayer could use that word. Alpacas feel pain but they are stoic;
they hide their pain. Do willow leaves relieve tht pain?
We were told by a local horse farmer that the acidity in the willow leaves kill and/or prevent parasites.