Lamafest brings a forest of furry necks to town
Lansing City Pulse - August 30 2006
Looking at a llama — a whole llama — is as hard as swallowing one. Each part is pretty by itself, but somehow they never come together in the visual cortex. With generous, lovely fleeces, tiny coffee-table legs, necks as long as interstate highways and huge, expressive eyes, they look as if they were designed on a Chuck E. Cheese placemat by a 6-year-old girl.Even when seen live and up close, nuzzling each other and frisking through a meadow, llamas only seem to exist in two dimensions.
Llamas may be pack animals and even table meat in their native Andes, but in Michigan about 150 farmers keep them, primarily to produce super-soft yarn and soak up affection and curiosity.
Michigan’s growing interest in llamas — safely in the pet rather than meat stage for now — will be more than satisfied at “Lamafest 2006,” the largest llama show east of the Mississippi, set for MSU’s Pavilion this weekend. [more]
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