I don’t think Penny and his boyfriends killed the remaining alpaca. I could definitely be wrong, but here’s my thinking:
At their peak the tranch had something like 200 alpaca. Assume for a moment that Bonnie’s claim that he helped bury a max of 60 alpacas is correct, and assume that as many as another 40 died and went to the wolf sanctuary over time. You’re still left with 100 alpacas, and Penny only took 10 with him to his parents. So you’ve got at least 90 missing alpacas. I think it’s likely much higher, but let’s say 90.
Adult alpaca are 120-200 pounds. That’s a lot of animal to maneuver, particularly if dead weight. Killing, moving and burying that many animals would be a really major undertaking these dudes are too lazy to do. I do believe they would just walk away and abandon them, but I think even Penny would sense the danger of bad PR at that point.
It makes the most sense to me that Penny took a handful of animals and bailed to his family’s place, and left the remaining alpaca, dogs, and chickens and ducks under the dubious care of another troon (Skye? Does he still live there?) who’s supposed to take care of them until Bonnie returns.
I don’t know what Bonnie thinks he can do with them. These animals have very little value except as pets, and what are the odds dozens of locals want a couple alpaca each? You’re likely looking at thousands of dollars in livestock trailer rentals and fuel to relocate these animals to new homes out of the immediate area, assuming you can even find homes for them. So I’m guessing that the tranchers are all assuming that someone else will step in and take care of the rehoming, like some alpaca rescue will handle it and pay for it. It’s always someone else’s problem, if you’re a troon.
One thing that makes me actually MATI about troons and leftist utopian extremists in general is how little respect they have for labor and competence. They do all of this complaining about “capitalism”, the system that enables their lifestyles, and seek mostly to live by grift, but they always seem to think that everything is going to be really easy for them whenever they do take action. Remember early in the saga when they got fawning press and one of them would always be like “we’re going to be totally self sufficient and grow all our own food”. Retard, you live in a place with
a 64 day growing season that gets 14 inches of rain a year, you ain’t growing shit. An extremely skilled and experienced grower with the capital to set up a passive solar greenhouse could basically provide some fresh vegetables year round. With a 35 acre property in a cold, arid place like that,
maybe they could keep a very small flock of sheep if they managed their rotations very carefully.
It has always made me mati how they pretended to be self sufficient when they imported thousands of pounds of hay. They’re basically an alpaca feedlot.
I’m irrationally annoyed that MSM did all these puff pieces on the tranch and never asked “but how will you make money though” and course there will never be any follow ups.
Finally, Penny if you’re reading this, for the love of God, buy or make a hay feeder!!! You have to be feeding the better part of a square bale per day, the feeder will quickly pay for itself. And if you’re feeding grain or pellets, stop feeding it in that tote lid, get yourself to tractor supply and buy a couple of round rubber livestock feeders, they’re cheap (under 20 bucks). Buy several so you can feed the goats and the alpaca in separate areas of the pen.
