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Hi there,

I've been surfin' your website and I have found something that I wanted to ask you, Mr. Zambrano. In your "about us" section, you define your training model not as a "circus where animals are trained to perform tricks and unnatural behaviour". But in your last mail, you defined one of your best "educational projects" as having llamas carrying some people picknick baskets. Is this an unnatural behaviour?. 

I know what would you answer to this. You may be thinking that llamas are domestic animals that are meant to do that. Like horses, donkeys and many other animals (the same animals that can be taken for pets as you say about the llamas). Maybe your right,... but nowadays, is very common to have prairy dogs as pets. Does it mean that we can use'em to entertain our visitors accomaining them in their visits? Is that so different, a prairy dog from a llama? why? because the priry dog has been among our us for the last 20 years and the llama, since the Incaic times? Is that a matter of time? So,... it would justify also to train my dog to bring my shoes at home (as dogs have an evolution mixed up with the humas for thounsands of years). Does it justify the action of taking animals to do those things in our times?

Haven't you found a better way to educate people about llamas ecology than making'em carry picknick baskets? 

As you know, many years ago, the ostriches were used to drive people around parks and zoos. It sounds to me like the llamas activity. Doesn't it?

The interaction between animals and people can be carried out using many other tools and resources. These actions have a thin borderline between what's "medical training" or what's "show taming". Let's define both concepts, and then we will analyze if the actions that we are taking are closing to one of them.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Thanks!
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