Quite a lot of people saw us on the Countryfile programme on Friday. Luckily I missed it so I am not squirming at the horror of it all. I knew I should have had a face lift. However Alice, our Havanese terrier, was by all accounts a little star as she was sat up behind the presenter doing his piece to camera looking alert, intelligent (I don’t think so) and as if she was about to wave. Stil it helps to raise awareness of the wonderful alpaca.
Raising awareness is the point of the British Alpaca Futurity too at Newbury Racecourse on November 3&4. It is a big do with show classes, fashion show, trade stands, dinner, auction and so on and the point is to create publicity for the alpaca enterprise. Some owners are remarkably dim about this and still haven’t clocked that to make this industry work for all of us, people need to know we exist and what wonderful animals alpacas are. All British breeders should take part as it is the only show in the autumn but sadly many of them sit on their hands and almost certainly moan about nothing happening etc etc. Time to get off their bottoms and DO something perhaps??