Expect the Unexpected: Creative Animals Wake Up My Husband

The alpacas know I am not one to do mornings very well. Or late nights. So how did they manage to let us know a baby was born at midnight in the cold winter night? Normally, alpacas have babies during the day- and many night time babies are compromised or at risk of freezing.

When we have alpacas who are due to give birth, we do a late night check just to be sure everyone is safe, and then head to bed. This one winter was a different story. We already had a 10 pm baby this season who we luckily found about 5 minutes after she was born. She was a totally healthy cria, just born at the wrong hour of the night. Thankfully for her, we had been diligent.

One evening that winter, my husband was suddenly jarred awake in the middle of the night. He said he had a dream that a drill sergeant was screaming in his face to wake up. He quickly woke up, then heard our amazing livestock guardian dog, Riki, pawing at the metal barn. My husband ran outside to see a little white baby alpaca in the pen.

He came back to get me and we dried up the baby, coated him, and tucked him in the warmer barn with his mom who had tons of milk ready to go. Alamo did really well and other than the crazy hour he was born, he was a perfectly healthy baby.

The interesting thing about this whole experience is that the animals chose to wake up my husband instead of me :) and my husband was able to receive these communications even though he would say he was totally not intuitive at all.

We were so amazed at how beautifully everything was orchestrated to make sure little Alamo thrived. Animals can communicate in the most unexpected ways!

I learned how in tune and creative our animals can be. I don’t know how they orchestrated each sequence, but they are quite powerful and appear to be communicating clearly with each other. I love that they included my husband and communicated to him in the way he would be able to take action.

Listen, trust, believe and take action was my big takeaway from this experience.