Don Giovanni was really inspired by llamas

When ever I tell someone that my family raises llamas, someone has to ask, "What do you do with llamas?" And I want to say "Train them to be astronauts! Hello!" But this time, the question probably involves a "why" instead of a "what." Why write a blog about llamas, won't only illustrious llama ranchers read it?

Llamas are a very social animal, or a very anti-social animal, depending on how you want to look at it. They are, after all, infamous for their spitting. They aren't like cows that simply moo, attempt to flee in the same direction, and bump into each other. I think I could go so far as to say that their relationships are more complex than those amongst more intelligent animals such as dogs. Dogs bark, whine, and fight with each other. And are man's best friend. But you just couldn't cast Mozart's Don Giovanni with dogs. Llamas, on the other hand, must have inspired the opera.

But when you just look at llamas, you think of something more a long the lines of Charlie Brown, or Kuzco from Emperor's New Groove. They behave like this as well--aloof, and arrogantly aloof. When you dig a little deeper, you find there are also family feuds that span generations that result in petty social injuries like those found in a Jane Austen novel.

So stay tuned as I pick my memory for these llama drama gems.