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Cria Care

By: petMD May 1st 2012 12:10AM

Naturally, one of the best things about my job is dealing with the newborn offspring of my four-legged patients. Although I don't spend all day playing with the foals and calves and lambs, as some people think I do, I do make sure that when there is a newborn on the farm, I at least get to scratch it on the head (if the mother allows!). And while I've said before that there's really nothing better in this world than a lamb, I will challenge my own statement with this: baby llamas and alpacas (called crias) are a close runner-up. Camelids (the term encompassing llamas and alpacas), are strange, fascinating creatures. Originating from South America, llamas have been used as pack animals, ...

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