Alpacas, a species of New World camelids, have very thick wool. This requires them to be shorn regularly, just like sheep. But shearing is a source of stress for the animals. This has now been ...

The strangest one, Robert Morrison says, was the woman who insisted on lying next to her alpacas while they were being sheared. The cuddling calmed them, she insisted. You're in the way and might get ...

MONTARA — Alpacas are simple creatures. Feed them grass and they are happy. But try to shear them and you will get an earful. From the sound of it, there is nothing alpacas dislike more than shearing ...

POWELL For Fandango the alpaca, a haircut is a pain in the neck. He whines. He fights. He spits green gunk. Yet once it's through, he'll feel much better on hot summer days, free of around 10 pounds ...

The South American creatures give up their coats so others can wear nice sweaters. Loretta didn’t want to get her hair cut. The big, white alpaca whinnied like a pony, bucked and kicked and put up a ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. About 200 alpacas and llamas from across the Gallatin and Paradise valleys gathered in Bozeman ...

Spend enough time around alpacas and you get used to their distinct noises, even the screeches some of them let out during a shearing. Brent Winslow has given many an alpaca a haircut over the years.