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."