#930  Llama Training with Bobra Goldsmith: What Every Llama Should Know

Practical, gentle, efficient basic training for every llama, no matter what its future holds. Bobra's highly successful training techniques provide the basis for training your llama or alpaca for willing cooperation.

931-D   DVD format  $39.95
931-V   VHS format  $29.95

Contents:

• Disclaimer & Title
• Introduction
  - What every llama should know
• Initial Contact and Haltering
  - Initial contact with a young llama
  - Slow-motion haltering technique
  - Contact with and haltering a second
     young llama
  - How to hold the halter before putting it on
  - Contact with and haltering a third young
    llama
  - Desensitizing
• Leading
  - First Leading Lessons
• An Untrained Adult
  - Haltering and leading an adult for the
    first time
• More on Haltering and Leading
  - How to adjust a halter
  - Second leading lesson: the three young
     llamas
  - Short-tying a llama for the first time
• Catching Ritual
  - The catching ritual with an adult male
• Loading in Vehicles
  - Preparing the vehicle
  - An adult male learns trailer and van
    loading

• Kush Training
  - Kushing (lying down) and getting up
• Grooming
  - Blowing with a leaf blower
  - Brushing
  - Patting for desensitization
• Some Difficult-to-Halter Adult Llamas
  - A female puts her head down
  - A tall male stretches up
• Leading Tips
  - Getting a llama to run with you
  - Lead rope under your elbow for
    pokey llamas
• Some Useful Knots
  - Neck rope, clove hitch on post,
    Bobra's bowline, quick-release
• A Complete Training Sequence with a Young Llama
  - Catching, handling, haltering, first
    leading lesson
  - A young male resists quite vigorously
  - Second lesson in leading
  - Walking around obstacles
  - Loading into a vehicle
• Concluding Remarks and Credits