Just who are Jim and Gwen anyway???
Jim Krowka earns hay, lumber, and pellet money
by working full-time in retail sales for a local True Value hardware
store. He's a 1952 model with no pasterns at all, and has semi-curly
fiber that's kept shorn to a few inches long.
Back in the 70s, Jim used to joke about maybe
raising llamas if he didn't succeed in some acceptable career.
They say you should be careful what you wish for, because it
might come to pass. Well, he's not raising llamas as a career
now, but nearly all of what he does is either with the llamas
or to pay for them. So in a sense, llamas are his fulltime life
work.
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Gwen Ingram tries to keep ahead of the vet
bills by working nights as a clerk for the US Postal Service.
She's a 1962 version, also with no pasterns, but with straight,
easy-to-comb fiber that unfortunately needs periodic shearing
to stay at the preferred length.
Gwen has a keen interest in lifelong learning
and has spent a great deal of time studying theoretical and practical
genetics, biomechanics, and veterinary medicine. In fact, she
still wants to be a veterinarian when she grows up -- whenever
that is. She has also spent nearly all of her life trying to
understand animals better: to teach them, to learn from them,
and to fulfill a difficult-to-describe personal need to communicate.
Gwen did have a couple of plastic llamas as
part of a Noah's ark set when she was growing up, but what she
really liked back then (and still does to this day) was giraffes
and geese. Of course, they have long necks, too.
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Both Jim and Gwen have a very strong committment
to putting llamas' welfare before human gratification. This has
made them extremely unpopular in some circles, and very much
appreciated in others.
You can make your own decision after perusing
Lost Creek Llamas' website, and we welcome in-person visits for
those who would like to know more, and for the skeptics who just
want to see if what's on this website is for real.
And just remember -- what Jim
and Gwen's llamas think
is what counts with Jim and Gwen.
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