Could I keep an alpaca in my back yard as a fairly maintenence-free grass cutting alternative? The bonus would be that their wool is valuable (depending on quality, of course). Wikipedia suggests that in Australia it is generally only possible to run one to three alpacas per acre "due to drought". I don't know how much land we have at home, but I'd bet it's much less than an acre, so I might be pushing it space-wise. The final benefit I can name is that keeping a large animal like that is an obscure reference to Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep".
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PS - Sheep or goats are the other options.
PPS - I don't know where I would procure any of them, though.
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