Webcam at Macdonald’s UK farm monitors camelid as his slaughter by Defra – with no further TB test – is anticipated
Every time she hears a car or lorry trundling down the lane to her farmhouse Helen Macdonald flinches, wondering if the government has come for Geronimo the alpaca.
“It’s torture,” she said. “I’m in a horrible limbo waiting for them to arrive and kill him. I feel like I am being punished. It’s a tug of war. They want him dead and off their desk. I’ve been told they could come for him at any reasonable time – whatever that means – in the next three weeks. I watch the gate, I start when I hear a car coming along. I feel under enormous pressure.”
