You may recall that on Thursday when the vet was here our new cria had an elevated temperature and the good news is that when I have retested it yesterday it was down to 101.2 which is much better.
I believe these little guys can bump there temprrature up quite quickly when they run about on a hot day and being small gives them a high ration of body mass to surface area so regulation temperature can be tricky.

No more sightings of the cougar (mountain lion) but my wife reports hearing something that sounded like a large dog running down the road in the early hours of Friday morning. It may well have been the cougar because I always expect dogs that chase you down the road to bark and run....but to just hear the running must have been very spooky.

I am going to set up a motion sensitive camera and try to at least get some pictures of our nocturnal guest.

Scouting cameras are an ideal way to track game movement, monitor the security of your property, and more. These high-tech tracking cameras feature an infrared sensor for instantaneous game capture. Basically you set up the camera and then leave it. If anything moves within 50 feet of the viewing angle it shoots a flash using infrared so the animal isn't startled...although in my case a camera that also startled the cougar might be a better idea!

Anyway that's my plan. Any pictures I get will go onto the alpaca blog.