Llama Running In Circles Manages To Evade Authorities For Hours
The 'hot' pursuit began just the way the llama liked it: lazily.
She was spotted earlier this week in a Colorado alfalfa field that runs along a highway.
There wasn't much of any other kind of running.
Just slow circles as llama-wrangling professionals - staff from Boulder County Animal Control - tried to corral the wayward animal, according to the Daily Camera.
It turns out the fugitive llama's name is Ethel. She had escaped from a nearby property where she and another llama named Lucy were awaiting adoption.
But the operation to recapture her only heated up when someone tried to get a rope around Ethel's neck.
Well, more like a simmer. This wily llama frustrated animal control for a full two hours before she could be reunited with Lucy.
At one point, people even tried to form a human fence to trap her, the Associated Press reports.
"They are so smart," Jennifer Appelman, an animal control officer, told the Daily Camera. "They just don't come to you, like a horse. They aren't enticed."
The llamas are all looking for good homes, their owner Tyra Haley tells the news site, preferably ones that "can provide better fencing for them."