Thursday, July 4, 2013
Happy Fourth of July!
The fourth brings great time with family, as we celebrate our nations birthday, yet it also brings the sounds and sights of fireworks. At our ranch, we don't shoot any fireworks off. Certainly not because we don't enjoy them, but for multiple reasons.
Our ranch is located on top of a canyon ridge, therefore we can catch shows from the city of Omaha and two close by towns, Blair and Ft. Calhoun. The other reason is our animals. We read in an article that fireworks sound twenty times louder to a dogs ear than they do to a human. We can only assume that the same or similar odds is also true for alpacas.
Even though we don't shoot any off our alpacas still see and hear them. We noticed this year, and it might have just been a coincidence, but our animals were watching the shows as intensely as us! It made us think that even the alpacas enjoy the beauty of the holiday. So next time theirs a firework show near your farm, watch and see how your alpacas react! They may surprise you!