1-month-old alpaca disappears from Kingston farm – Kingston | 24CA News
A Kingston farm is lacking a child alpaca, and the house owners of Willow Pond Farm have now reported it stolen.
They’re asking for the general public’s assist to get her again.
stated Darren Van Winckle, one of many house owners of the farm.
Van Winckle is a dentist by day and farmer by evening. He advised Global News in an interview Monday that final week, he and his spouse went on a brief journey to Toronto and left their animals within the cost of a part-time farm hand.
While they have been away, one-month-old Fergie merely disappeared from her pen the place she is stored along with her mom Celia.
Van Winckle says the farm hand, who additionally has a day job, didn’t test on the alpacas between Monday evening and late Tuesday night, so the disappearance occurred someday throughout this time.
He stated there have been no apparent indicators of entry from any predators, and no gates left open. They combed the sector across the farm with the tractor, then had their subject hayed, however there have been no indicators that little Fergie may need been dragged away by a predator like a coyote.
Van Winckle stated he and his spouse began going by means of all the probabilities of what might have occurred, and thought it unlikely that the younger alpaca would have wandered away up to now on her personal.
“One-month-old babies are not wandering away from their mom. They’re standing there and they’re whining as close as they can to them to try to get together,” Van Winckle stated.
He additionally famous that the sector is fenced in, which might have made it tough for the toddler animal to flee.
They got here to the conclusion that there’s a chance the newborn was snatched whereas they have been away.
“Maybe somebody came down our laneway while we were away and while Megan wasn’t there and took Fergie,” he stated.
The farmers reported the disappearance to police and put out a put up on social media, within the hopes that if somebody has stolen Fergie, or even when she is discovered, she may very well be returned to her mom with “no questions asked.”
“She does need her mom’s milk still. She’s only a month old,” Van Winckle stated.
Kingston police say the incident was reported to them and an investigator was assigned, however didn’t give any extra particulars in regards to the matter.
Van Winckle admitted that though they think a theft, they actually don’t know what occurred to little Fergie.
“A happy ending would be nice. An answer would be nice because again, we just don’t stop thinking about it. It keeps you up at night,” he stated.
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