I'm BAAAACK!

It was noted to me that it has been some time since I lasted posted. Well in spite of my happiness of acquiring Jasmine and Captain Gold, I've gone through a good number of tribulations which had me back to rethinking the alpaca business.

Because I intend for this blog to be educational and to allow readers to learn from my experiences, I'll share and I'll try to be brief but three months is a long time.

The first big shock came when I found out how much it would be to transport my animals. It is not cheap by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, I'll never buy another animal that I can't personally transport. I was able to make myself comfortable with the knowledge that I got such a great deal on Jasmine and Capt Gold that the transportation and price balance each other out.

It really hurt my feeling that the people I thought would understand weren't very understanding at all. In fact some of them were downright mean. I will never understand why people think that new people should know everything and be rude when they don't. I also don't understand why they want everyone to learn by trial and error just because that's how they learned. Thankfully, there were people who understood my point of view and were supportive of me.

My next blow came when the farm I bought Jasmine and Capt from refused to register them in my name. WTH?!!! Her justification was that she priced them low because she wanted them gone quickly. She failed to remember that she put an agisting clause in her contract which implied that there was no specific timeframe for the animals to be moved. I posted this situation and this time I got more of the response I thought I would. It was really bad when she threatened to sue me for sharing my story. Since I have never publicly used her name or farm name and since I was telling the truth, I was never worried because I knew she had no legal leg to stand on. Apparently she found that out too because I now have both ARI certificates in hand and my kids will be united in April. Sadly they won't be with me but they'll be together.

Which brings me to the most wonderful surprise. Rick and Pati were unhappy because I posted about being hurt over Carmella but they being true to the wonderful people they are, they let hard feelings go and offered to go get Jasmine and Capt Gold and agist them with Priscilla, Michael Jackson and Mr Ewok. Words cannot begin to express how eternally grateful I am to them and all of the kindness they have shown me.

Thus is pretty long so I'll end this posting but stay tuned. I have plan changes to share and ponder. And it won't take me three months to get to it.