Alpacas and
Horses and Dogs at
Filoli’s
Spring
Fling
In addition to
their usual beautiful tulip display, at Filoli's
Spring
Fling they had
lots of interesting animals.
There were small
horses
Like these rare
Heart-Rumped Ponies
; - )
And very large
draft
horses with fluffy feet
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The guide dogs in training were adorable! Notice how the pretty girl and the dog are making the same face at me. Clearly they want some kibble... |
And here's one
slightly-shy guide
*puppy* in training
Notice they use
“kindness
collars”, which pull gently on
the nose
instead of pulling
on the
*neck* like a normal collar.
Over on the lawn
there was an obstacle course for the agility-trained
dogs 
They love the agility races
Between the agility races, they would play
or wait patiently
or try to train
their humans to
walk on a leash
But they clearly
*love* playing
the agility-race game
Wheeeee!
There were also
Alpacas at
Filoli’s Spring Fling
With cute hair-cuts
Alpacas and Llamas
are both
Camelids from South America.
They have a
similar appearance except
that Alpacas are about half the size of Llamas
Alpacas are used for
their soft
fur.
Llamas are large
and are used as
pack animals or
to protect
smaller animals
like goats (from coyotes) as this one does in Pescadero, California
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Alpacas have short
straight ears |
Llamas have
long
curvy banana-shaped ears
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They let us
hand-feed this Alpaca
(I don’t think
you’d wanna do
this with a Llama)
Not with those
teeth
This Alpaca was
the sort of
clown who liked to make funny faces at the tourists:
What fluffy lips !
I wanna kiss!
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