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Alpacas are gone, and city folks miss them

Alpacas are gone, and city folks miss them

By Kathleen Thier
Special Correspondent
Charlotte Observer

The e-mails keep coming. "Where are the alpacas?" eveyone wants to know.

The answer: Greenville, VA. Four hours and 15 minutes from their former home, off Ridge and Mallard Creek Church roads, said oner Erin McCarthy.

During the winter, she moved her 250 alpacas from their 11 acre home near the Highland Creek subdivision to 300 acres on a former horse farm in western Virginia.  Yes, she needed the room.  But the departure has left neighbors crestfallen. Read More

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