Tips 'n Info

A Checklist For The Show

By Cathy Spalding
Gentle Spirit Behavior & Training
www.gentlespiritllamas.com
www.gentlespiritalpacas.com

With the alpaca and llama show season just beginning, we have found it very useful to have a general checklist for "stuff" to bring along!

 
 

Map and directions to where we are headed

  • Hotel reservation and/or confirmation number

  • ARI or ILR registrations (and copies to use in any promotion)

  • Health papers (and an extra copy in the glove box)

  • Show registration

  • Parking pass

  • Show clothes (belt and shoes!!)

  • Camera (extra batteries and some cameras still require film!)

  • Cell phone, adapter, and address book

  • Farm advertising (business cards, brochures, banner.)

  • Table and chairs

  • Show Tool Box (hammer, pliers, screwdriver, wire snips, duct tape, clear fishing line, wire, bungee cords, alligator clips, scotch tape, thumb tacks, safety pins.)

  • First Aid Kit for both animals and humans

Fans

  • Extension cord(s)

  • Flashlight (batteries)

  • Garbage bags and paper towels

  • Halters and leads

  • Grooming supplies

  • Containers for water, hay and grain

  • Feed (hay, grain.)

  • Feed and water for use during transport

  • Stake out lines

  • Rake, shovel and broom

  • Poop (put some poop in a plastic baggie or container with a lid to use in making a little pile to encourage pooping during rest stops)

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