A baby alpaca lost after being separated from a family farm has been reunited with its owners thanks to a kind passerby who helped it home.
Victor Villafuerte, from Arequipa, Peru, discovered the cria – a baby alpaca – completely alone on the edge of his village, and as it spotted Victor approaching quickly latched onto him.
The alpaca – which Victor revealed was scared and thirsty – was crying loudly as it tried to find its family, but there were no visible farms nearby.
Unable to see a farm, and with places to be, Victor had to leave the alpaca but he was unable to stop thinking about it, so returned the very next morning to help – documenting both days on video.
Thanks to a distinguishing bow on the cria, Victor was eventually able to locate its farm after a lot of searching, and reunited it with its owners and family.
His first video went viral, with over 19 million views and thousands of comments, including one with over 61,000 likes asking: “Please let us know if they returned to their mommy.”
The three-video story racked up almost 35m views in total, and after the reunion Victor said: “I found the little alpaca and she didn’t want to leave me.
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“This baby was really thirsty, she got lost and she came to the village, I had to come over and try to bring her to where the other alpacas are.
“I couldn’t find her mom and she was crying because she couldn’t find her mom, I could see tears from the poor little one.
“But good news – the alpaca is now doing very well, we were able to locate the owners thanks to the pompoms she was wearing to distinguish her from others.
“They’re feeding her while she grows up and learns to eat from the fields, so for now she is on her own and walks alone until she learns to live with the other alpacas of her family.
“Many people said they wanted me to adopt her, but it is a little difficult to raise her because she needs to be in her habitat when she grows – it is best she is with her kind.
“On behalf of the alpaca, I thank everyone very much for the support in finding her home.”
