Every time I've seen a llama, whether at the Bronx Zoo or the little game preserve outside Allentown, PA they've spit at me.
I got no llama love.
The llamas that are at a zoo probably have people teasing them, just like happens at the fairs. I have seen people walk up to a llama at the fair, and they would spit at the llama, and think it was hilarious.
My llamas never once tried to spit at me, in fact, they usually came right up, and greeted me with a llama-kiss.
Llamas "talk" by whining/humming; so the best way to get one to come up to you is to hum to them, "mmmmm-mmmm", and they will hum back to you and then come right up to you.
Like a dog (or most other animal), they respond to how people act with them.
(story)
I was moving, and couldn't take my llama along, and gave him to my friend, Pat. She also loved llamas, and wanted to teach him to pull a cart, but had decided to have him gelded first.
We were standing beside the llama, talking about it, he was munching grass, and when she graphically told me her plans for gelding him, he flung his head around, stared at us in shock, and jumped away from us ! !
To this day, I am SURE that llama understood what she said, and was horrified at the thought.
The only time my llama would spit, was Mrs.Gilligan, when Gilligan was feeling romantic, and she was proclaiming a headache.
First, she would put her ears back and glare at him.
Then, if Gilligan still was pursuing her, she would start this weird gurgling sound, and you could see her throat moving. This was usually enough to give Gilligan the idea that she wasn't receptive; but if not..... then she let him have it ! !
So, Sifu.....what were you thinking about when those llamas would spit at you, that is what I want to know ???
