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RosieILR listing #266906; original registration unknown or never registered female born est. between 1988 - 1996 sire & dam unknown Would you believe that after Rosie failed to sell at the auction, she was left with three other llamas (a gelding and two intact males) in the pasture of total strangers who had never handled (let alone owned) llamas before? If not, you are living a very sheltered life -- this sort of irresponsible thing (and worse) happens all the time. Fortunately for Rosie, she was dumped on two people who are very committed to their animals. To make a longer story very short, once Rosie's new people understood some fundamentals of llama herd and health dynamics, they agreed to give her up in trade for a gelding -- both for her wellbeing and for the safety and sanity of all who were being threatened by "Leo", the 2-year-old male (only recently gelded) who had decided Rosie was his personal property and subject to defense, no holds barred (and if you haven't run into that scenario yet, you really ARE leading a very sheltered life ... or perhaps you don't have llamas at all!!!). We traded a previously neglected but healthy registered gelding for Rosie -- even though nobody knows if Rosie is registered. We appreciate good quality classic llamas, period (and Rosie senses that). Rosie has many excellent traits besides her fantastic self-shedding coat. Thus far, we have been unable to recover her registration despite extensive searching through the ILR's photographic database, and so we will have her screened in early 2008. She is a breeding quality animal, and although we don't know anything about her ancestry, that doesn't mean her ancestry has anything bad in it ... just that we don't have the level of knowledge we'd like to. Rosie has produced four offspring for us now; three are breeding-quality keepers ... and if you have been reading our site very much, you know we don't breed very many llamas each year and have quite a few females yet to choose from when deciding which we'll breed each year. Thus, Rosie will be leaving our breeding program. We're making Rosie available for breeding lease after her screening is complete; we'll also consider selling her to the right home for a reasonable price. Rosie enjoys food (who wouldn't after what she's been through?) and thinks Gwen is pretty cool 'cuz Gwen knows really good places to scratch and rub! Meet Rosie's offspring at Lost Creek Llamas: 2004 female -- Lost Creek Ranger Ceilidh 2005 male -- Lost Creek Credo 2006 female -- Lost Creek Saucony 2007 male -- Lost Creek Troubadour Meet more of our llama family Return to Lost Creek Llamas home page |