Zoritta Joins the Family

On Monday afternoon our long awaited Zoritta was delivered to join our farm family!
She is a lovely and statuesque addition to our pastoral scene. Her job is as a guard for the sheep, but she will just be adjusting for a little while right now. She comes to us from Greenbriar Llama Karma Farm in North Berwick, and has spent many years living in the company of other llamas. Here at Pondview Farm there are many new creatures to discover, chickens, cows, sheep, a pasture near a heavily traveled road, so she is decidedly unnerved at it all. In true llama stoic nature, she does not really show this, just quietly humms when she is nervous.
The sheep also are not quite sure about her, and are not the most welcoming group, but the more time passes, everyone slowly relaxes as they realize this new, large, stranger among them is not as scary as they thought. We are thrilled to have her, and hope that soon she may feel the same. For now I talk to her gently and she looks at me with disdain. Good thing I don't take it personally!