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 Megan
Summer Socks
ILR # 248733
female b. 6-20-97
Radar x Annabelle TAØ1
Megan is 43.5" and a muscley 285 pounds.
Jim her human partner.
Megan was the product of an unplanned "escape
breeding" on another farm. Proving that humans don't always
know what's best (particularly those who are breeding for fashion
or personal whims), Megan turned out to be the most outstanding
llama there! We spotted her when we visited the farm, hoping
to see a paternal half-sister (from Megan's mother) to our Greymist
and also intending to assist in relocating some of the oldest
llamas if possible (the owner was dying of cancer). The combination
of Megan's marked athleticism and classic coat really caught
our eyes, and even though the owner and family were being VERY
difficult (to say the least), we persisted and eventually Megan
was ours -- still unregistered and (oh, by the way) very much
untrained!
Megan is bright and learns quickly, although
her unfortunate "upbringing" (or lack thereof) means
she's really only comfortable at home with minimal demands. That's
fine, however, because Megan is proving to indeed be the producer
of very athletic classic offspring, as we anticipated. She is
a devoted mother with excellent milk production.
Megan likes to run and also the security
of a large herd ... but not in TOO close proximity. She does
NOT like that strange neckless woolball next door (the neighbor's
sheep).
When we first saw Megan, we couldn't figure
out what llama she was and -- needing some way to refer to her
-- we temporarily dubbed her "The Socks Llama." When
Megan's bed-ridden owner saw the photos we sent, she also couldn't
figure out what llama that could be. The owner later found the
birth notation in her herd records: the llama's name was "Summer"
because she was born at the summer solstice. But, it turned out
that when the owner's 1997 cria crop was registered (by a relative),
the name "Summer" was registered to another llama with
a similar-looking mother and Megan, the llama who had actually
been named Summer originally, went unregistered. This meant we
had to come up with another name. We already have a cat named
"Socks" and we already know a llama named "Summer"
(besides the one who ended up with Megan's original name). With
her approval, we chose "Megan", a traditional Celtic
name meaning "pearl" or "strong one" (depending
on the source) and combined all her names, each relatively common
on their own, into a unique and fitting name for one unique llama:
Megan Summer Socks. Megan is indeed a pearl; she is strong in
many ways, she was born at the summer solstice ... and she sure
has a set of socks!
Meet Megan's offspring:
2007 female -- Lost
Creek Kahlotus
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