The owner of four alpacas shot dead with a rifle has appealed for help with the treatment costs for their surviving animal.

When we think about intelligent animals, farm species aren't usually the first to spring to mind. We may picture tool-using ...

Flanked by a gaggle of smartphone-wielding onlookers, Irish farmer Joe Phelan ushered two alpacas down the corridor of a local nursing home as beaming residents waited their turn to pet them.

Flanked by a gaggle of smartphone-wielding onlookers, Irish farmer Joe Phelan ushered two alpacas down the corridor of a nursing home as beaming residents waited their turn to pet them. A decade ...

A decade after ditching his office job for farming, 64-year-old “Alpaca Joe” has found a new job for his herd of 71 woolly South American camelids: animal therapy for the elderly and people ...

Phoebe, a 15-year-old alpaca, suffered a gunshot wound to the face in March when the herd was attacked in East Hatley, near Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire. Dawn French, 58, said vet bills were costing ...

A decade after ditching his office job for farming, 64-year-old "Alpaca Joe" has found a new job for his herd of 71 woolly South American camelids: animal therapy for the elderly and people with ...