This is a humorous look, loosely based on fact, about my beginning in llamas. The llama kushed below in the house is Santa. In spite of a rough start with a novice owner, he and I are still together and in October of 2000 he'll turn 11.
Llamas have an adorable way of laying down and tucking all four legs underneath themselves.
This is called kushing. I had llama care videos that clearly showed their male llama standing calmly as his feet were trimmed. I reached for a front foot and Santa kushed. This happened several times so I tried a back foot, only to get the same results. Okay fine, I'd just trim his feet while he kushed.