My Little Alpaca Shop?

Yesterday I had the delightful opportunity to hang with about 40 alpaca for an hour or so.  I am absolutely charmed by them.   We stopped by an alpaca ranch in Sedro Wooley.  The owner was perfectly lovely and showed us around.  She has a fiber studio much like I dream of having one day - complete with loom and spinning wheel and shelves of handspun yarn.  She happens to have three little cria bucks that were born last August for sale.  I am so tempted.  One is a beautiful chocolate brown, one is beige and one is gray. 

I've been re-thinking the goat thing in favor of a more practical animal. I really need to make a list of pro's and cons to help me decide on the animals I raise.

(on a scale of 1-5, 1 being the best)	Fiber	Milk	Personality	Ease of Care
Goats	3	1	1	3
Alpaca	1	5	3	1
Sheep	1	5	3	2
Bison	2	5	5	5

I'm not sure if that helped me.  Although I'm pretty sure I've ruled out bison.  Perhaps I should get two of each (except the bison) and resolve the question that way!  Nobody said I had to have just ONE kind of animal, did they?

Oh.. I finished my sweater.  It's kind of big and baggy and sloppy - but it's also cozy.