Sunday, April 11, 2010

Release the Yaks!

Ok, so it doesn't have the same ring as "Release the Krakken!" or "Release the hounds!" but releasing the yaks was pretty exciting. And anticlimatic. Actually, it was mostly exciting because it was anticlimatic.

When we started talking to yak breeders we were told a lot of horror stories. "They'll bust through any fence and you'll never see them again!" "You'll have to shoot them if they escape, they'll never come back" "A bull can lift stock fencing with his horns and throw it 100 feet!"

Ok, so we were a bit nervous about letting them out of a secure building with walls and locks on the doors. But when the doors opened



a nose poked out.

And then a head...


And then Pullo took his first bite of Pennsylvania grass. Soon he was joined by another head...

as Eirene got brave enough to come outside.

Last to explore was Gaia


In the other corral, several hours later, Niobe and Octavia braved the big outdoors (again, since they had been part of the escapees on Thursday)


And then the meet and greet, across two corral gates and a sidewalk, began:

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