PORT ANGELES — Roxi Baxley puts the llama in the rama llama ding dong.
With no apologies to The Edsels’ recording of the 1961 hit written by Barry Mann, Baxley is busily promoting the breed that looks somewhat like a cross between a goat and a camel.
On Sunday, closing day for the fair, she had a “llama play day” at the Clallam County Fair, offering kids and adults a chance to lead a llama through an obstacle course.
The event was rigged, she says, in favor of the kids. They were allowed to lead llamas that were trained to go through the course.
The grown-ups got llamas that hadn’t a clue about what to do.
“Only the little kids could make the llamas do what they were supposed to do,” Baxley said with a laugh.
Baxley and her husband, Jim, own Llamaridge Ranch on Glass Road east of Port Angeles.
“We raise llamas, we sell llamas, and we’ve done some rescue [of llamas who needed a good home],” she said from the fair.
“We are working on putting together a llama 4-H club in Port Angeles.”
