Alpacas and Horses and Dogs at

Filoli’s Spring Fling


March, 2010



 

In addition to their usual beautiful tulip display, at Filoli's Spring Fling they had lots of interesting animals.



There were small horses

 

Like these rare Heart-Rumped Ponies  
; - )



And very large draft horses with fluffy feet



What I wanna know is, who combs and blow-dries the hooves?







The guide dogs in training were adorable!

Notice how the pretty girl and the dog
are making the same face at me.

Clearly they want some kibble...


 


     

And here's one slightly-shy guide *puppy* in training



Notice they use “kindness collars”, which pull gently on the nose

instead of pulling on the *neck* like a normal collar.



Over on the lawn there was an obstacle course for the agility-trained dogs


 
They love the agility races




Between the agility races, they would play

 

or wait patiently



or try to train their humans to walk on a leash

 

But they clearly *love* playing the agility-race game

 

 

Wheeeee!


 


There were also Alpacas at Filoli’s Spring Fling

 


With cute hair-cuts

 

 

Alpacas and Llamas are both Camelids from South America.

They have a similar appearance except that Alpacas are about half the size of Llamas

Alpacas are used for their soft fur.



Llamas are large and are used as pack animals or
to protect smaller animals like goats (from coyotes) as this one does in Pescadero, California

bart



Alpacas have short straight ears

Llamas have long curvy banana-shaped ears



They let us hand-feed this Alpaca

(I don’t think you’d wanna do this with a Llama)



Not with those teeth 

bart

 


This Alpaca was the sort of clown who liked to make funny faces at the tourists:



What fluffy lips !

 

I wanna kiss!

 



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