Alpacas are small, easy to handle, and disease resistant.
Alpacas are intelligent, pleasant to be around and easy to train. Alpacas are adaptable to varied habitat and are being successfully raised from sea level to 15,000 feet and from Australia to Alaska. Alpacas and llamas were domesticated several thousand years ago in South America. They were the foundation of a prosperous civilization living in the Andes mountains. In 1984, the first Alpacas were imported into the Unites States.