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Q: What would happen if you spat at a llama first?

A: I don't think a llama would even notice if you spat on it. Thier wool is too thick. When they spit on us, which is usually because we're in the crossfire between them and another llama at which they're angry, they regurgitate food from one of thier stomachs. They're ruminants and can easily do that, so it's more vomit than spit. Nothing we can spit on them is going to be nearly as disgusting, unless we were to actually vomit on them, but if I'm sick enough to projectile vomit, I'm not going to feel like running around a pasture, trying to do it on a llama, so I can't say how they'd react to that. I once got so mad at a llama who had the ability to always piss me off, that I did spit some chewed up food on her. I think it was some apple. She wanted to move away from me because I was clearly angry, but she was irritatingly unaware that I had spat upon her. It might have worked better if I had been eating meat or cheese. Llamas seem to be able to read human body language almost as well as dogs, and I think they're going to pay much more attention to that, than a little human spit.