Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Llama Market Bottoms Out

From Craigslist:
I have a papered Llama, Beemer and his fieldmate Hershey the Alpaca. Both have been neutered and have been our "fieldpets" for a few years. They are very nice and love to be around people and our four dogs. If you can provide a good home for these two beautiful fiber animals please give me a shout.

First off, the llama doesn't look papered to me. Pampered, maybe, judging by the fierce haircuts being sported. 

Or maybe this is a new version of the Craigslist scams, only now, instead of Nigerian princes needing money wired to their account, you show up to this person's farm with your llama trailer, ready for your free llamas, and really they secretly unhitch the trailer and you drive off sans llama and out a trailer.

Or maybe the llama market has just gotten so bad? It's hard to say, but I have a feeling this owner has not put enough effort into making the sale. Judging by the effort put into the naming of these "fieldpets," Hershey and Beemer. Really? Do they realize the typical llama has at least a surname, if not several middle names and a prefix, such as Sir. At the very least they could have clicked on over to the llama name generator, and gotten some inspiration.
Here's a few good ones I just got:

Coach Perky Adonis
LarryBird Pandora Duncon 
Chickabitty bubble Georgie

It's actually a little scary how real-to-life these sound...

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