Meet Annie, the Alpaca who thinks she's a dog

Meet Annie, the Alpaca who thinks she's a dog and lives in the Stirling home of her owner Danny

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00:00My name is Danny Burns and I'm the owner here at the Alpaca Trekking Centre and this is

00:07Annie.

00:08Annie is the little alpaca that we actually hand reared and lived in the house with us

00:12for 7 months and now frequents whenever she likes.

00:15She's now 4 year old with her own baby and yeah, she's been kind of crazy for the last

00:204 years in my life and she's due to give birth again in September this year and that'll

00:27be fun.

00:28So we've got room to build in the house to add her on.

00:31Annie, come.

00:32What's this?

00:33Come.

00:34Biscuits.

00:35So you think she's a dog, don't you?

00:40Well, it's taken us 5 years to build the house.

00:43Barely pretty much built it myself and right through lockdown and also no labourers, no

00:49materials, everything through the roof, prices, costs, everything else.

00:53So we managed it.

00:54We decided that yeah, just go for it, you know, we're here now.

00:57And Annie decided to join us.

01:00So she, as I said, frequents just whenever she can get away from the fields and the barn

01:05and the other alpacas.

01:06She comes down here with us regularly.

01:08Run.

01:09Annie, run.

01:10Run.

01:11Here she comes.

01:12Me and the missus, just us in this 300 square metre house and Annie when she appears and

01:27pops in or when she wants to because if we leave a door open and we're out on the farm,

01:31she'll end up in here without us being here.

01:33So she just kind of wanders about and pleases herself.

01:36So yes, Annie comes in with Bailey, her baby from last year.

01:39So we'll see what happens when the new baby comes in September this year, whether it'll

01:43actually frequent the house the same as what they do.

01:46So we'll keep in touch and tell you exactly what's happening there.

01:51Possibly need to put an extension on if it keeps going this way, but yeah, no, it's big

01:56enough for about the moment.