Loose llama shot, killed in Mower County

Owner should be wild, if safety is the reason they should poison all the deer.

What is the price of a pregnant Lama, not cheap. Bad decision.

So much for superior law enforcement in Minnesota...I swear, more people get into law enforcement to satisfy some inferiority complex than any other profession. At least that llama will look pretty sweet in the officer's den when he mounts it in an attack position.

sounds like a headline from the Sims

1st question...where did the llama escape from?
2nd question...why didn't they get the proper tranquilzer needle for a thick skinned animal, probably available at your local vet?
3rd question...why didn't they try every avenue available to them before they shot this animal? A local 4-Her probably would have caught this llama on the first day!
I'm sure it just "had to be done" because daylight was burning and tickets needed to be handed out. Mower County "authorities" were way out of their depth here and should have gotten more help and not let the animal roam for so long. Again...where was the owner?

That just sucks! Another example of power hungry police-people over exerting their authority!

Javier wrote:

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Hmmm...a Llama on the road. Motorists driving on road. Yep, potential threat to safety of motorists. Any more questions, IDIOT?!!

There ARE alternatives to killing it. Did they even consider calling in an expert on this type of animal? Heck no, they wanted to shoot it! They ought to be embarrassed!

Geez, deer hunting just around the corner, could`nt they wait to satisfy there lust for blood

should try that approach with the animals roaming frogtown

Amused wrote:

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There ARE alternatives to killing it. Did they even consider calling in an expert on this type of animal? Heck no, they wanted to shoot it! They ought to be embarrassed!

Yes, and they spent a week trying those other methods.
When do you draw the line? Do you wait for an inexperienced driver to swerve into a ditch, or into oncoming traffic before you put it down?
Or, are you actually saying a llamas life is more valuable than a humans?

Nice of you to lump all police officers into a group of trigger happy homicidal maniacs.

Do any of you people have any experience working with llamas, or on a farm for that matter? You talk about a 4-Her or any farmboy being able to catch a llama. Good luck with that happening. Like most other farm animals, llamas have varying temperaments with the worst being extremely nervous and an aggression towards humans, which is magnified when they seen a bunch of strangers coming towards it. As far as not having a long enough tranquilizer needle, I would say odds are they did contact a vet to get their opinion and the tranquilizer itself. If an animal is in an excited state it sometimes takes a double dosage to be effective.

As far as where was the owner in this case, it had been on the loose for the week and the owner, like most farmers do, is spend the first couple of days looking for it. After that, they figure that someone will contact them to say where the llama is.

I remember a few times when the stockyards in South St Paul were still open and the city cops having to do the same thing when an animal would get loose. Would you say those cops were over-zealous??

Where was the owner of this llama? That is who should have been responsible for keeping the animal in its fence and capturing it when the llama got out. This was a very bad use of tax dollars and law enforcement. They should have spent those hours looking for drugs, DWI's, gangs, speeders and other crimes. The worst part of all this is they killed an innocenet baby llama.
It is truely time I appologize for how we elected our leaders - local, state, and federal levels. For this I am sorry and ask others to forgive us.

sounds like a story out of Mad Magazine

a "nearly 200-pound llama"?? I think that figure is incorrect. Wow...you guys and the Mower County "authorities" are idiots.

Loose llama? Maybe if the llama wasn't such a degenerate slut and had a higher moral fiber, the llama would still be alive today.

Awww, poor baby mama llama. I hope the old girl didn't suffer too much.

Ma Kettle wrote:

Where was the owner of this llama? That is who should have been responsible for keeping the animal in its fence and capturing it when the llama got out. This was a very bad use of tax dollars and law enforcement. They should have spent those hours looking for drugs, DWI's, gangs, speeders and other crimes. The worst part of all this is they killed an innocenet baby llama.
It is truely time I appologize for how we elected our leaders - local, state, and federal levels. For this I am sorry and ask others to forgive us.

Ma Kettle, even the best built fences can't hold every animal in. As I said in my previous post, the owner of the llama, like most other farmers that have animals, spend the first couple days looking for a lost animal. Even if the owner was able to find the llama, it probably would be scared of him/her and then go in an opposite direction. After a point, the owner usually figures that the animal will find its way back home or hope that a neighbor will contact them instead of contacting the local law authorities.

To the poster who commented about an "innocent baby llama being killed", what are the deputies supposed to do-get a vet and try to deliver the baby? If you deal with farm animals and a pregnant farm animal gets injured, they're more likely going to try to save the mother at the expense of the baby.

Law enforcement didn't need to be involved. Beer hunting season is right around the corner, I'm sure some Big Man would have blown the llama away.

Hindsight is 20/20.

Pioneer Depress wrote:

So much for superior law enforcement in Minnesota...I swear, more people get into law enforcement to satisfy some inferiority complex than any other profession. At least that llama will look pretty sweet in the officer's den when he mounts it in an attack position.

If anybody ever tells you to your face that you're an idiot, thank them and tell them they are correct.

Ma Kettle wrote:

Where was the owner of this llama? That is who should have been responsible for keeping the animal in its fence and capturing it when the llama got out. This was a very bad use of tax dollars and law enforcement. They should have spent those hours looking for drugs, DWI's, gangs, speeders and other crimes. The worst part of all this is they killed an innocenet baby llama.
It is truely time I appologize for how we elected our leaders - local, state, and federal levels. For this I am sorry and ask others to forgive us.

The only thing you should be sorry for is being an imbecile...but thats not your fault either. Your government is to blame for making you a mentally incompetent and obviously unable to comprehend what you read.