A cute import from Cusco
8 children are not enough for Chris and Sandy Welch. Since a couple of days they have a new family member: an alpaca baby, which had been a tourist attraction on the Plaza de Armas in Cusco: “pay the price and you can get your picture taken with the four-legged beautiful animal.” Not really a desirable lifestyle for a baby. But this exploitation is now over once and for all.
Family Welch signed a sales contract there and then thus becoming the alpaca’s new owners. The newest addition to their family is three weeks old, is bottled-fed with milk and its siblings have named it “Milkshake”.
Plans to buy a second alpaca have been made in order that Milkshake does not become lonely. Watch this space and you will know when family Welch will be sharing their house with a whole herd of alpaca!