All the cool kids have Alpaca trainers
Here's the story. According to the Daily Telegraph in Australia, a boy named Rory needed a Footballing partner. With Rory sans siblings, and living on the Children's animal farm in Victoria, you can just guess what happened next.
Mom noticed the Alpaca "Chicky" had a real 'tude, so she saw a potential match. She encourage "Chicky" to tackle, the border collie "Jet" to retreive, the miniature pig "Hamlet" to run around in circles and the cockatoo "Lu Lu" to cheer them all on from the sidelines.
Chicky: "Sproing!"
Chicky: "Get out the way—tiny hooves comin' thru"
Rory: "ooooof!"
Jet: "Dewd!"
What a cute kid. Thanks for the story tip, "Nightwatchman" blogger Glenn P.!
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HOLY BUTTERFLIES AND UNICORNS, BATMAN!!!
Utopia exists.
That 3rd picture is a winner. What a great set of photos.
I dunno....looks kinda photoshopped to me...
I heard of Animal Farm, but Animal League?
Kool!
Chicky, Rory, Jet, and Hamlet. A perfect team!
omfg. how could someone be so callous and stupid?! It's obvious that the alpaca is asserting dominance over the kid! He could totally crush him at any moment.
That dog is OBVIOUSLY seconds away from a vicious attack.
..seriously though. totally cute.
*tramples*
chicky's neck looks scary! like its going to be twisted..
>__<
A real life 'Babe' story some thing for Dick King-Smith
This makes my pets look SO lazy.
Aw, this is the best!! I've been addicted to CO for a while now, but this is the cutest post since! I just love it.
That first pic cracks me up with the little alpaca legs and the look on its face. The look in the third pic is pretty humorous too.
Watch Rory become a famous footballer someday. I can hear the interviews now about "how it all started" for him as a kid. Too funny.
Yeah, I'm with RevWaldo on this one... there's some pretty obvious photoshopping action happening here...
I consider myself to have pretty hard core Photoshop chops, so I'm skeptical of lots of "unbelievable" pics. However- if you check the hair on the alpaca in pic #3 and the shadows on pic #4, you can see either it's real or someone has such great PS chops that I must bow down.
I'm hoping it's the former, cuz these pics are just too dang cute.
This is the kind of childhood every kid should have! Alpacas have the sweetest faces, the lashes, the big eyes. Lucky little Rory!
oh for god's sake, photoshopped my ASS! (not that you'd want to, i have a lovely ass)
this is hilarious, i love it. i wanna play rugby with funny things with long necks and staring-straight-ahead-faces.
I like the dogs face in the 3rd picture.
He looks like he's thinking "the next time that damn 'paca blocks me, I'm gonna bash him Aussie ghetto style".
It's not photoshopped! I saw a video of the same alpaca and the kid on the news a couple of days ago. So cuuuuute! I hear alpacas are fuzzy and kind animals.
Yeah, but, Dazie, pic #1? YOU have the Photochops, TELL me that one's legit, I DARE you...
Not that ALL of them aren't cute, mind you. I don't mean to disrespect the cute.
Definately not photoshopped. Rory and Chicky have been shown playing football with each other on TV here in Australia all week.
Another hilariously cute things about the story is that Rory sounds like an old pro footballer when he speaks.
Best kid and best alpaca ever.
Finn -- you back from España yet? Looks like Jet might be Jack's Ozzie cousin.
Constance, your comment is even funnier when looking at the dog. He has such a funny, dopey look on his face.
arbed, I agree! The legs in the first pic are totes redonk!
GAH! What a funny/cute animal.
i smell a straight-to-video disney movie coming on!
Pheral -- [cough snort LOL] ...I'm dyin here.
Pic #1 does have a sort of 'shopped feel to it, in that Chicky has a bit of a dark "aura," and isn't physically wrapped around Rory, and *could* have been pasted into a layer pretty easily.
But my question is, with all the footage of these three available, why would anyone *need* to fake any of the shots? The "aura" could be explained by lighting and what appears to be a 2-tone coat. It's quite possible to have hairs that are dark at the tip & light at the base; even one of our cats is like that. Spot is in fact a rare Norwegian Alpaca Mog. (To be fair, though, she *is* Photoshopped.)
Is #1 a vampire alpaca, as it doesn't appear to have a shadow?
How neat! I didn't immediately think the picture was 'shopped but now that I think about it, the first picture looks really funny, not weird funny but funny funny. If you don't think about the story, it's like there's a random Alpaca collaged onto the picture.
Awesome story, though!
Guin, look again. The shadow is faint due to Chicky being off the ground, but it's there.
That is SO WONDERFUL. I am not a sports person, like, ever, in any way... but for these I would make an exception.
Y'all are shop-obsessed. Picky picky picky... ;-)
Bears repeating...
http://www.squidgrid.com/cute/Glossary.htm#Photoshopped
;)
More bears repeating...
http://funhousetrading.com/g_dead_dancing_bears_lg.jpg
;) ;)
bearsbearsbearsbearsbearsbearsbearsbears
bearsbearsbearsbearsbearsbearsbears bananaphone! oops I'm confused.
THIS IS TOO @#$%ING CUTE. I can't stand it. Aaahhh!!
wow what rugby stars!
Yay Alice!
Scrum scrum scrum scrum scrum scrum scrum, ALPACAPHONE...
Ok, I must have an alpaca. And if I get one, I will knit a sweater out of him. :)
Pronking, sproinging alpaca, ultra-cute kid.
Kewl!
Can't stay a grumpypants for long around you guys!! lol :-)
I'm so jealous of Rory! All those photos are tooooo adorable.
Laura, you might want to check out this link:
http://mountainspunfarm.tripod.com/
I sent it in to CO a while back because there were some cuties there. This person has a farm where she raises animals that have exotic fibre.
Dum de dum de doot de doo...
Updated the Yay pic...
Deedle de dum de w00t w00t...
http://www.squidgrid.com/images/misc/yay_pic.jpg
TEHO, yr. the best!! lof the addition.
uh, wha?!
I think the pictures look photoshopped because of how tight the focus is on the kid and the alpaca. The blurry background behind the sharp foreground images tends to look "fake" but it's just a camera technique.
At, new surprise on Yay...
No more photoshop controversy! It would have been easier to actually train the animals than to spend all of that time photoshopping. I'll bet that it may have been run through some sharpening to enhance to picture, but nothing more. Enjoy to cute and leave the cute-spiracy theories to the tin-foil hatters out there.
uh, yeah. I noticed the new yay addition...
the "wha" was me being totally dumbfounded by the hilarity/cuteness of this construction. A boy, a dog, an alpaca, a pig, and a cockatoo playing football? too, too much. espec. for this tired brain on a Monday.
...cockatoo...?
What pic are *you* looking at, Thinkie?
The cockatoo is not in the photo, but it is mentioned in the description.
These pictures made my Monday!
Ahhhh... OK, thought for a moment there that the Yay pic had taken on a life of its own, acquiring new elements without my intervention, knowledge, or indeed within my limited powers of observation.
Note to self: Begin administering monthly Turing tests on Yay pic, starting yesterday.
LOL'ing!!
(thanks, Jaye)
I wanna see pics of the miniature pig and cockatoo too!