Short PAC And sides

Zany dos are a gift to our alpacas! By Helen Kendall Smith, 53, from Cirencester

- Alex Noone/Lucy Needham

A tenth anniversary is celebrated with tin.

Not that I was married to my alpacas – although I might as well have been!

And, while they wouldn’t be interested in tin, I wanted to do something for them.

‘They deserve it, after all,’ I said to my hubby Geoffrey.

I’d got my first six alpacas in 2008, so now we’re nearly at our 10-year anniversary...

All my life, I’d bred ponies and horses. So I had the land and the experience.

When I saw an alpaca at a livestock show, I felt drawn to them, so I got three females and their young, which are called ‘cria’.