Debbie McQuilkin on a recent morning stepped into the paddock she had built last summer on this historic, prominent Oenoke Ridge Road property.
Debbie McQuilkin feeds her alpacas on a recent morning at ‘Crajah House,’ a prominent, historic home and property on Oenoke Ridge Road. Credit: Michael Dinan
She scooped a bucket of grain from the shed and then turned to face the huge brown eyes and serene, slow-moving heads of her newest, most voluminous pets, explaining how all of this started, while in a habit that animal-lovers often share interspersing her human-to-human sentences by addressing the beasts directly, and in a higher-pitched voice.