Autumn 1998 . Issue No. 47 What you will find inside issue No. 47 Links will connect you to the author's email address. Cover Illustration - by Paige McGrath

Editorial

• The Stage of Enlightenment - Jo Ann McGrath

Letters to the Editor

News

• Dan Milton Heads New ILA Board
• ILA is Forging New Path
• Dudley Debuts on Disc - Eva McGrath Lightfoot
• Sally Taylor Wins ILR Board Seat
• Notes From ILR Annual Meeting - Alan Witkin
• Alpaca Owners Fund Own Fiber Mill (Aust.) - Sylva Barns
• Remembering Howard Kerstetter - Tulli Kerstetter and Doug Stevens
• Canadian Breeders Schedule Meet - Lorraine Guyn

In Short

Husbandry

• Neutering Females: Why? How? Is it Affordable? - Dale Goodyear
• Llama Training Basics: The Catch Pen - Jim Logan
• Abscessed Teeth Don't Have to be Pulled - Sheila Fugina

Breeding

• Legendary Sire: Essex
• Grand Dam: RM Dulcinea de Taos
• Views: Seven Inches of Separation - Jo Ann McGrath

Outreach

• Standards Committee Reports Progress - Joyce Abrams
• On the Soap Box: "If we don't look, does it mean it isn't there? Some Liquidity Poisons the Water - Jo Ann McGrath
• Llama and Alpaca Rescue in New York - Gordon Cucullu

Marketing

• Pierce Production Sale Gets Thumbs Up - Lynn Lenker
• Wickums Sell West Coast's Firecracker Sale

  Firecracker Sale Results

• Llama Woods Production Sale and Herd Dispersal

  LW Gucci Brings $135,000 - Madeleine Landis

  Iris: A Retrospective - Jo Ann McGrath

  Llama Woods Statistics

• On the State of the Market - Dorane Strouse
• Llama Magic Braves Storm - Sheila Fugina

Showing

• LLII Judging Llama Conformation with Carol Hicks
• Ohio State Fair Allots More Room For the Biggest East Coast Show - Jack and Donna Moore
• Show Results:

  1998 Estes Park Wool Market Alpaca Roundup

  Schooling Show at Lower Sherwood ALSA Youth Show

  1998 Mid Michigan Llama Show

  Shenandoah Showcase

  Waukesha County Fair Llama Show

  Solano County Fair Llama Review

Online

• Op-Ed On the Web
• New LLII Web Address - www.llamalife.com
• eMail & URL Directory
• Some Useful Sites to Bookmark

  ALSA

  ILR

  Llama Web

Alpacas

• Trouble In Paradise Redux: LLII Interviews ARI President Eric Hoffman
• Celebrating Spring Down Under With Two-day 'Alpaca Classic' - Sylva Barns
• AOBA Meeting in Ruidoso, NM - Gordon Cucullu

On the Trail

• Comments on the Pack Llama Market - Noel McRae
• 'Rendezvous'-goers Revel in its Success - Madeleine Landis
• Classic 2000 Packerama a Hit - Sally Kline

People

• A Shaggy Dog Story - E.D. Stokes One for the Books - Rebecca LaVergne
• Award Awarder Awarded
• Photogenic Llama
• Llamas Pay Tribute to their Mistress - Lester and Barbara Reed
• Random Calls to Subscribers...

  Mary and Norbert Smith, Newberg, OR

  Reneé and Will Gaven, Bozeman, MT

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