There is a regular need to rehome llamas in the UK. One of our trustees - Matt Yorke - serves as the Llama Rehoming Director for the British Llama Society. This role involves coordinating the rehoming of any llama where the owner can no longer care for the animal. Unfortunately this scenario occurs all too often for all sorts of reasons, and in all likelihood, this requirement will grow in the near future due to the current fashionability of llamas in popular culture.
How your money will be used
We want to establish a base of operations for llama rehoming, where animals can be brought, trained, given medical care, and provided with a permanent lifelong home. We are currently seeking finance to assist with this initiative and have kick started proceedings on our Just Giving page.
Our target figure is ambitious but an unfortunate reality of the practicalities of caring for large animals - they require lots of space, grazing, shelter, care facilities, veterinary care, food, clean water supplies, and appropriate transportation so that we can travel the country rescuing animals in need. If we are truly to become a one stop shop centre of excellence for everything llama, we are going to need finance to match the ambition.
Hitting the funding target would allow us to start realising this dream and commence the rehoming of llamas, giving us a platform to build off. Once the organisation is established, we want the sanctuary to become financially sustainable by offering popular llama based services to the public such as llama walks, holiday accommodation at the sanctuary, llama picnics etc. Donators will of course be able to come and visit the rehomed llamas and the new sanctuary.
