🚨 BABY ALPACA VANISHES FROM SOMERSET PADDOCK WITHOUT TRACE
Fears are growing for the welfare of a young alpaca who vanished from a secluded Somerset paddock almost a week ago, with his devastated owner now fearing he may have been stolen.
Alpaca Banff, a ten-month-old black alpaca belonging to Tam Harrisson of Chapel Ground Alpacas, disappeared overnight from a private field near Goblin Combe close to the village of Cleeve.
The young alpaca was last seen at around 9pm on Sunday, May 10, alongside three other alpacas in a paddock near Tam’s home. By the following morning, he had vanished completely.
Despite extensive searches involving friends, neighbours and animal lovers combing woodland and steep-sided valleys around Goblin Combe, there has been no sign of Banff.
“The gates were still shut, and there was no sign of him anywhere nearby,” Tam told Somerset Live.
“If they get out and can’t get back in, they usually don’t go far at all.”
As the days have passed without sightings, concern has shifted from the possibility of escape to fears the friendly young alpaca may have been taken.
“What worries me most is that someone has come here and stolen him,” she said.
Tam explained Banff is still small enough to be lifted into the back of a vehicle and warned that anybody keeping him without proper knowledge could place him at serious risk.
“He’s due a shear now. In winter, he’ll need medication. He will be very, very distressed at being away from home and being away from his three friends,” she said.
Alpacas are highly social herd animals and typically remain close to companions even if they escape enclosed fields. Tam said the complete absence of sightings, fleece caught on branches or even droppings has made the disappearance deeply unusual.
Search teams have taken Banff’s fellow alpacas into surrounding woodland in the hope he might respond to their scent or calls, while feed buckets have been rattled across the combe in an effort to draw him out.
“There’s been nothing,” Tam said.
“He’s friendly, he’s used to meeting people, he’s curious and so lovely, so he will come over to someone if they say hello.”
Chapel Ground Alpacas is well known locally for alpaca experiences and appearances at agricultural shows across the region.
Tam has now appealed for anyone spotting an unfamiliar alpaca in fields around North Somerset, or anyone with information about Banff’s disappearance, to come forward.
“I just fear the worst, that someone has taken him,” she said. “We really want him back.”
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