You don’t make it to nearly 28 without setting some serious boundaries, and Lolita enforces hers with pinpoint precision. One step too close and Kensington Prairie Farm’s oldest alpaca will let you know you’ve crossed the line with a well-aimed spit.

“Lolita is the first of the herd that will spit on you,” says farm manager Dee Milton, who runs the Langley operation alongside her grandparents, farm owners Jim Dales and Catherine Simpson.

She rules the alpaca farm pastures as a grizzled, patchy-fleeced elder, and now another ego-boosting title may be within reach: World’s oldest living alpaca.

The Aldergrove farm has submitted her age to Guinness World Records for verification. The current record-holder for the oldest living alpaca is 27-year-old Hawthornden Wainui of New Zealand. Accord

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