Domingo Pianezzi has been training dogs to surf for years, but he's the first one to get an alpaca on a board. I wonder how he chose this alpaca. I wonder how he first introduced the alpaca to the ocean. I've always read that camelids are ill-tempered. I imagine being bedraggled doesn't help.
Photo source: Pilar Olivares via Yahoo! News
Mar 3, 2010
Surfing Alpaca
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7 comments:
LMAO. This is amazing.
Actually alpacas were bred by the Incas to be friendly because they tended by women and children. They are still considered a very good hobby farm animal since they are so laidback and relatively easy to care for. Llamas are very ill-tempered though.
Can you imagine that wet-wool smell?
That poor Italian creature's thinking: "He make-a me do-a dis ting one-a more time and alpaca my bags and a leave-a him."
Alpaca my bags! Hilarious!
Alpacas can be great pets depending on how much effort you put into them but they can be really skittery and ill tempered. I've never seen a non-skittery alpaca. I'm amazed he got this alpaca on there.
I raise alpacas and many of them are pretty fearful about doing things away from the herd. This is a mid-sized youngster, not an adult, btw, and they can be trained to be very friendly, ie. sit inside and watch tv with you. But these don't make the best adults because they have lost their natural fear of humans and then can be cranky and stubborn because they see themselves as equals. I suspect he's been conditioning her to this since birth. She might not be so easily coaxed onto the board once she is grown up.
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