Quiet, Loveable Camel Seeks Winter Home
Posted December 5, 2012 at 8:28 pm by Tim Dustrude
Mona needs a warmer home for the Winter
I just heard that Mona the Camel may be leaving our island if she can’t find a warmer place for her feet. Her owner Steve King says her feet get cold in the Winter at her current location on Roche Harbor Road (lots of wet runoff on that property) and it’s not good for her health or happiness. He’s looking at a “camel farm” down near San Diego but is pretty torn up about it.
“She’s really not been around other camels much and I don’t know how she will handle it,” he says. She relates to humans much better as that’s what she’s accustomed to from people stopping by to visit her. “I’ll probably have to send the alpacas as well if she goes, that’s unless I can find a place locally where she can spend the wet winters – somewhere with a rocky, dry soil with better drainage.”
If any Update readers know of a place here on the island, Steve would really appreciate a call. You can reach him at 378-8228.
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3 comments:
3 comments...
Poor Mona! She needs boots, and a blanket over that hump.
Please somebody do something! We love Mona! She is an island icon.
Could you not create an area for “Mona” with an appropriate “footing”, such as, layers of gravel topped with straw in an area with shelter? ‘um Just askin’……JHA Heath
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