Spring 1999 . Issue No. 49 What you will find inside issue No. 49 Links will connect you to the author's email address. Cover Illustration - by Paige McGrath

Editorial

• Industrial Strength Llamas - Jo Ann McGrath

Letters to the Editor

• Op/Ed: A Realignment Thais is Imperative - Bob Wynia

News

• Funds Sought For Research - Allan Dewald, MD
• Scott Woodruff Named ILA President - JAM
• Llama and Alpaca Owners Unite - Barbara Baker
• Will We Have Dueling Foundations? - JAM
• Aussie Owners Fall Into Line and Close Alpaca Registry - Sylva Barns

In Short

Health

• Trouble-Shooting Nutrition for Camelids - David E. Anderson, DVM, MS, Diplomate ACVS
• Out of Milk? Domperidone May be One Solution - Sheila Fugina

Breeding

• Legendary Sire: Mikado

Husbandry

• Will Llamas Guard and Protect Sheep? - Sheila Fugina
• Babysitter Extrodinaire - JAM
• Maternal Instinct - Cheri Rimacthe
• Inter-species Socializing - JAM

Outreach

• Above and Beyond - Jack and Donna Moore
• Love Found, Lost, and Found Again - Casey Gillbreath
• Community Responds to 'Standards' - Joyce Abrams

On the Soap Box

• National Promotion Will Be Harmful - Sheila Fugina

Events

• 'Try-it' Badges Earned by 19 Brownies - Eva McGrath Lightfoot
• Ft. Worth Sale and Llama Show
• Doings Down Under - Sylva Barns

Showing

• LLII Judging Llama Conformation with Carol Hicks
• ALSA Elections
• ALSA's Proper Role in the Marketing Toolbox - Paige McGrath
• Show Results:

  Celebrity World Championship Show

  Fort Worth Show and Sale

Performance

• Book Review: "Llama Pack Cookbook" - reviewed by Madeleine Landis
• Selecting a Llama Suitable for Driving - John Piper
• Stand By Me: Teaching Basics - Jim and Amy Logan
• Pack Llama Trial Assn. Elects 1st President
• Winter Llama Carting With the Latte Llama Ladies - Janet Boyhan
• Star Trek Discovers the Best Trekkers of All - Lindsay Chandler
• Archive: Snake Bite! - Terry Price

Fiber

• ALSA Adds Llama Fiber Classes - Paige McGrath
• Fiber Definitions 101- PFM
• 'Fleece to Shawl'
• Breeding For Fiber - Sylva Barns

Humor

• Dining Etiquette for the Blue-blooded Llama - Paige McGrath
• Je ne c'est quoi - Lance Hardcastle and Alvin Bean

Online

• eMail & URL Directory
• Op-Ed On the Web

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