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pixoplanet · 1 year

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It's December 9th, 🦙 Llama Day in the United States and Canada! The origin of this special day is murky, but one thing historians agree on is that it began in the 1930s. Americans say they held the inaugural event as a way to protest their government's newly-imposed ban on Llama imports because of hoof-and-mouth disease outbreaks.

Canadians say they held the inaugural event when they recognized the Llama's importance as a livestock animal following a drought in the province of Manitoba that killed many sheep. Indeed, the Llama is known for its hardiness. Llamas can deftly navigate rocky terrain at high altitudes and can withstand harsh environments. They don't need much water, either.

Meanwhile, in the US, the ban on importing Llamas was finally lifted in 1984 – at least for Chilean llamas – but by then, Llama Day had grown so popular, celebrations have continued every year in both the US and Canada. People in both countries dress up like Llamas, carve butter Llama statues, sing Llama songs, play Llama-related games, and more.

Millions of wild Llamas live today in their native South America, primarily in Peru, Chile, Ecuador, and Bolivia. Since the Inca and other South American Indigenous Peoples didn't utilize the wheel (except for children's toys), they domesticated the Llama to serve as their primary pack animals. Llamas can carry about 25-30% of their body weight and travel 20 miles in a day. They're smart and very trainable. Some are used as therapy animals, while others are used as guard animals to protect sheep from coyotes and wild dogs.

But mostly we appreciate Llamas for how soft and cute and gentle they are. If you've never met a Llama in person, today's a good day to do so if you live within reach of a farm or petting zoo that owns one of these cuddly animals. Have fun! ☮️ Peace… Jamiese of Pixoplanet

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hedgehog-moss · 3 months

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Look, friends.

Do you think this is a post about my adorable baby succulents? No. Look harder.

It's about the GIANT HOLE IN MY FENCE that I had to patch up with cardboard.

I can't blame Pampérigouste for this one; the brutish nature of the damage is not consistent with her usual modus operandi. Pampe outsmarts locks like Arsène Lupin; she doesn't charge at fences like a bull who saw a red cloth. This is Pampe Pondering A Fence Problem:

No, the damage to my fence looked a lot more mindless this time. Boorish. Boar-ish. I'm blaming a boar. A deer would have destroyed the whole thing rather than just the lower half. Note that there is not a single tuft of llama wool on the damaged wire mesh.

(Note no.2: the boar's smile was originally meant to be a tusk but it really just looks like a sardonic smile)

I brought some chicken wire to patch up the hole—but there wasn't enough of it. Then it started raining and I felt persecuted and decided to just cover the hole with cardboard and go have my morning coffee and get back to this later.

This is not an Innocent Pampe post; there is no such thing. My temporary cardboard solution lasted 8 to 10 minutes. I'm not sure exactly when she got out, but by the time I went back outside to repair the fence there was a Pampe-shaped hole in the cardboard.

(Not really; she just kind of lifted or ate a corner then wormed her way through the very small opening. I think.) (See, this is how you recognise a Pampe escape: you're not entirely clear on what went down, you just know there was a llama inside and now there is a llama outside.)

It was still raining and I didn't feel like going after her, plus it felt pointless to bring her back in her pasture before the fence was repaired, so I went in the barn to look for my tools and rummage through leftover pieces of previously-destroyed fences, hoping to find something the right size.

Then I heard Pampelune's hyena shriek, aka the llama alarm call. It was followed by:

horrified chicken screams and frantic feather noises; the soundtrack of a violent fox attack

infuriated barking from Pandolf

very loud panicked braying from Pirlouit

basically, chaos.

I ran outside just in time to see Pampe emerging from the woods at a full gallop, pursued by a bear. I didn't immediately identify the animal that was chasing her as the giant dog that he was, because he was running with a weird gait, with his legs going everywhere like he was frolicking at top speed (I now know that this dog is a puppy that has learnt to run just a few months ago, but that didn't occur to me at the time because this puppy is the size of a calf.)

Pampe was running towards the cardboard through which she had escaped and she managed to squeeze through her small corner hole again (I assume—there were trees blocking my line of sight and I only saw her again once she was in the pasture, running for her life along with the other 2 llamas + donkey.) Meanwhile, the dog didn't see the corner hole and tried to power through the cardboard much like a boar, or was carried away by his momentum and didn't brake in time; I don't know. In any case, when I reached him, he was stuck.

My large piece of cardboard was tied to the fence posts and still holding strong, but the middle was a bit soggy with rain and not too solid, so the dog's head went right through it. The rest of his body didn't.

He could have probably finished breaking the cardboard quite easily, but for some reason he instantly gave up. On life. By the time I got there the dog was half-in and half-out of the pasture and he looked defeated. Which made my piece of cardboard look like a mediaeval beheading apparatus with just a hole for the head.

I went to lock an angry Pandolf in the barn and checked on the chickens along the way (ruffled & offended but fine); I was hoping the dog would figure out how to extricate his head from the cardboard in the meantime. He did not. I tried to call him in a friendly tone (from behind) to encourage him to free his head by stepping back, but the concept of taking a couple of steps backwards in order to extract his head from the hole might as well have been advanced engineering. He clearly had no idea where his head was, where his body was, how to make the two a coherent whole again, and he started whining pitifully.

I untied the rope I had used to attach the cardboard to the fence posts, then wriggled the piece of cardboard a bit to try and free the dog's head. The dog was alarmed by the wriggling and took several steps back—but I didn't manage to hold on to the cardboard so it just moved with the dog. He clumsily ran away, taking the cardboard with him, wearing it around his neck like the world's largest cone of shame.

He immediately got stuck between two trees.

I was starting to find the situation hilarious, but the poor dog did not—he lay down and started making sad broken noises like a malfunctioning dog-robot. He didn't look very threatening but he was still a very big (and stressed) dog so I felt a bit wary of touching his head to help him, and decided to run home to get a box cutter. I figured I could easily rid him of most of the cardboard and leave him with just a soggy cardboard collar that would soon fall apart. I heard my landline phone ringing from afar and ran faster, and it was one of my nearest neighbours, the retired lady who lives on the plateau.

"I've been trying to reach you!! I saw your llama in my garden earlier, I was going to give her a little treat—" (she loves Pampe, for some reason) "—but then my dog saw her too."

I know this woman's dog—he's a tiny thing with fragile nerves who thinks the whole world is out to get him, so I asked anxiously, "Did Pampe scare your dog?" and she said "Oh no! Domino is here with me; but I have a new dog. His name is Texas."

I thought of the gigantic puppy currently sobbing in my woods, held prisoner by two trees, a self-inflicted cone of shame and his total lack of reasoning skills.

"Yes", I said. "I've met Texas."

The old lady asked worriedly if he'd scared Pampe ("Il est un peu zinzin" she said—he's a bit crazy. "I wanted to call him Rex, but then I met him and thought—Texas!!") I told her I was pleased with her dog for scaring Pampe, because she needs to learn that her pasture is her only hope for safety in this cold uncaring world and as soon as she steps out of it she returns to her lowly status as a prey animal. Then I ended the phone call because I was worried both about Texas and about the large hole in my fence. Thankfully all my animals were still terrified and hiding far, far away from Texas.

Texas actually managed to free himself before I attempted to cut the cardboard, but he still thought of me as his saviour and was very happy to follow me through the woods back to his owner's place. Before we left I propped up the cardboard against the damaged fence, and despite the hole in the middle no llamas escaped in my absence; I think the whole area still smelled like Texas and fear.

I'll admit I was initially tempted to leave Texas with his head stuck in the cardboard in a more permanent capacity in order to patch the hole in my fence with this amazing anti-Pampe Cerberus. Like this

(I know this artistic rendering makes my llamas look like frightened carrots and my donkey like a bunny but I will not be taking constructive criticism at this time)

#crawling along #llama drama #i spent an hour at his owner's place eating biscuits and being told all the reasons why texas is ''a bit zinzin''#for example he runs away to the nearest farm to steal the cow feed (pellets) at feeding time #he was caught red-pawed by the farmer and just. stole the entire plastic tub that contained the pellets #and ran back home. holding this very large tub in his mouth and sprinkling cow feed everywhere along the way #this time around his owner must have feared he would come home dragging a bag with pampe inside or something

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tvickiesims · 7 months

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Real Animated Pets - Goat, Sheep and Llama

This project is our fruit of labour with @deedee-sims. I was looking for a way to have more "alive" pets in Sims 2 and approached DeeDee. Luckily for all of us, she liked the idea and helped me out with the most difficult parts. This project would not be possible without you, thank you DeeDee ❤️

From the technical point of view all animals are custom collars for large dogs (and only large dogs). In order for them to work as on previews, you need to assign your dog a transparent fur (a brand new creation by DeeDee that makes dogs' fur completely invisible, included in the archive) and then pick an animal skin you want from the collar section. If you'd like to change the appearance of an existing large dog, be sure to buy it a desired collar on a community lot first! Dog's breed is also important, it can make chubbier or thinner animals. If your fur doesn't look completely transparent, be sure to uncheck all the fur accessories. I'd recommend using a default white no name breed (looks best with animations).

Swatches:

We (especially DeeDee! ❤️) did our best making new animals move as smoothly as possible, but be aware that clipping is still present in certain animations. Also, these animals behave and sound like normal dogs. Hopefully we'll find a way to mute them in the future.

Animals come with a set of objects that are more appropriate for farm animals - new bed, toy, 2 "bowls" and deco hay. Objects have morphs and dirty states. Note that the feeders works like a pet bowl meaning they will randomly rotate but it won't prevent pets from eating normally.

All animals come with original Sims 4 textures (1024x1024 for llama and 512x512 for goat and sheep), converted and tweaked by me. Animal colors are separated so you can pick and choose only the ones you want. Collection file for objects is included. I also recommend these and these Uldum rug add-ons (if you want other sizes for the hay overlay).

Polycount: Goat: 3793 Sheep: 3545 Llama: 7133

A special thank you goes to @platinumaspiration for the time and energy she spent explaining additional stuff to me ❤️

@atomtanned made cute llama recolors, here.

Compressed, clearly labelled, picture included.

Download at SFS

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UPDATE 10/10/2023

Changed pet toy animation to silent chewy one (thank you @vegan-kaktus and @executables-sims), the archive was updated but if you don't want to redownload the whole thing, here's only the updated toy.

UPDATE 12/10/2023

Added a new feeder - prarie grass converted from Sims 4 Horse Ranch. Now your new pets can feed on the fresh grass. Collection file was updated too.

UPDATE 17/02/2024

Fixed toy's thumbnail - it's no longer empty. Added a custom version for the hay rug, I'd recommend using a custom rug rather than ULDUM because it has no outdoor shadow (ULDUM can't be fixed). Updated the collection file to include new rug.

#bytvickiesims #goat #sheep #llama #sims 2 #4t2conversion #4t2 #4t2 conversion #farm animals #animals #pets #deedeesims

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spiderziege · 1 year

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#cutting out the middleman and making art of my own minecraft builds. hell yeah #sorry the colours are kinda bad i am. so tired #ALSO the horse is named Capper and the llamas are called Goldmarie & Pechmarie. of course #and the balloons are bee farms and they are so inefficient and inconvenient. and i love them #my art #minecraft

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llamadraws · 2 days

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Firewood 🌳

art for @/dentedskull

#llamaboy #llama #artists on tumblr #character #artwork #drawing #furry #anthro #art #horse #farm

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travellingwiththedead · 5 months

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Ok, so I decided to finally catch up with the His Dark Materials series and I'm near the end of s2 and some stuff is just kinda icky...or maybe that's just me.

It's been ages since I read the books and I don't remember how it was there but: were the books making as big a deal of the difference between children and adults in regard to "sin"? Like the show makes it out like in Lyra's world as soon as a child hits puberty the adults just go "you're a sinner now". Also how /do/ they actually differentiate between child and adult? Puberty's a whole process, takes years. Hell, your brain isn't out of puberty until you're like in your 20s.

Also all the misogyny in Lyra's world is just pissing me off but I hope that's intentional xD

(Edit: Oh but I do love Ruth Wilson, she's fab)

#his dark materials #another also: what happens to people who's daemons settle as fish?#do they need to carry around tiny aquariums?#what if it settles as a big ass whale?#xD #there is also an appalling lack of people with farm animal daemons #like does no one ever get cow or pig or chicken daemons?#what about a Llama?#Also imagine you get a giraffe daemon xD #ok I'll stop now

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my-kids-made-me-play-minecraft · 15 days

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Wheat farm and a new friend 🫶🏻

#mineblr #minecraft #minecraft farm #my kids made me play minecraft #llama #friend #new to minecraft #farming

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the-adventures-of-dave · 11 months

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Do you follow hedgehog-moss? Dave and their escape artist Llama have much in common

Haha I do! It's a good thing Dave can't read, or else I think he'd be inspired Pampe's escape attempts.

(Pictured: Dave enjoying the upstairs because we gave up making barriers for him and accepted our fate)

#alpacas are my favourite animals #(and llamas are pretty great too)#i miss my family's alpaca farm so its nice to follow someone else's on tumblr!#thanks for the ask #ask #beecakes

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shadowmaat · 3 months

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Neuralemon

I am filled with dread. The first human test subject has been implanted with Melon Husk's brain chip. They have survived, inasmuch as detecting a "neuron spike" implies some level of aliveness. I sincerely wish them all the best, whether that's a full recovery or a painless death.

I understand the importance of medically-implanted devices to help improve someone's life (pacemakers, bionic eyes, neuromodulation devices for epilepsy, etc). I agree that they're important. However, I've also heard stories of, for example, companies going out of business and leaving the owners of those implants without any chance of software upgrades, tech support, or support of any kind. If someone's implant glitches or stops working, there's little anyone can do to help. There are so many ways that things could go wrong, even if a company has ethical intentions.

When a company only cares about maximizing profit and will cut as many corners as they can, well. It gets grimmer. And when the CEO of that company has proven over and over again he has no idea what he's doing (other than making money) and won't listen to the smart people he hires to run his businesses for him? A brain chip exploding or burning the flesh around it is not outside the realm of possibilities. I also wouldn't be surprised if it gets turned into some kind of subscription service: if you want your chip to continue working, you'll pay up or suffer the consequences. What happens if there are connectivity issues, as happens frequently with his cars? What kind of support network will users have, especially once the trials are over? And if the company folds, what then? Do people have until whenever the chip fizzles out to enjoy the benefits of its use and then they revert back to whatever state they were in before? Does he cut them off immediately? Will he have his people go in to remove the chips so no one can "steal" proprietary data? That's IF the chips even do what they're supposed to, which is a pretty huge IF.

I'm appalled that the FDA gave the go-ahead for this, but not overly surprised. Their credibility has been on a steady decline for a while, now. E-lon's was never high to start and just keeps digging itself deeper into the sewage.

May the gods help the recipients of these chips, because E-lon sure won't.

#drama llama farm #medical horror

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dwtdog · 18 days

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im back from folding my laundry but sam would be in charge of like the overall farm and the dogs. also i could see george also obtaining sheep and llamas so sapnap on goats, dream on chicks of a variety, sam on dogs maybe horses too, and george on sheep and llamas. (The llamas are named after skephalo)

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heheh dream has a whole flock of birds including some annoying ass peacocks that he loves with all his heart and he tries really hard to convince everyone else to get ostriches and they’re like NO DREAM. NO MORE.

#cq.asks #cock anonymous #llamas r named geppy and muffin #sam tried to automate everything on the farm but things keep breaking in the most absurd ways

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slutdge · 9 months

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i got the shit head-butted outta me by my parents neighbors goats, im going home to day drink and watch horror movies 😭

#being off a farm for this long has made me forget just how much dipshittery goats get up to #truly the most dipshit livestock i have no idea why people revere them as mystic occult shit they are sooooo stupid #theyre stupid with a dash of evil #im more of a horse/sheep/llama/cow person cause thats what i had growing up #i have never fucked w goats #homesick

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lycanthropicture · 9 months

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MY BROTHER BOUGHT ME THE SIMS HORSE RANCH EXPANSION AS AN EARLY BDAY GIFT HOLY FUCK 😭

#IM SO PUMPED I HAVE THE COTTAGE LIVING EXPANSJON ALREADY #IM GOING TO MAKE A LITTLE FARM ABD LITTLE TRANSGENDER COWBOYS AND THEYRE GOING TO DO CROSS STITCH AND HAVE CHICKENS #AND HORSIES AND LLAMAS AND AND CROPS AND THEYRE GOING TO BE SO CUTE

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