SLAIN alpaca Geronimo will live on — after his daughter gave birth to a boy who is the double of his famous grandad.
His New Zealand-based owners are asking the public for possible names with “a link to the UK to honour his grandfather”.
It comes six months after Geronimo — imported from the country Down Under — was put down after a lengthy fight over fears he had bovine TB.
Owner Helen Macdonald insisted his destruction was unlawful — and continues to fight Defra officials after a post-mortem found no trace of the disease.
Leonie and Neville Walker, who own Geronimo’s daughter, La Cherie, revealed the grandson’s arrival yesterday only a few hours after his birth.
It was just 12 days after what would have been Geronimo’s ninth birthday.
They said the all-black youngster was “very active” and had been racing around his mum but soon “gets tired and needs a drink and a nap”.
They shared a snap of mum and baby together on their farm, and said she was already “a doting mum and always talking to him”.
The couple farm 950 alpacas — animals known like camels for their spitting — near Taumarunui on North Island.
They want a name for the newborn that starts with “P” to match others in the flock born this year.
Before Geronimo left them he mated with three females and has one other grandson, Oakwood, but he is brown.
When he arrived in the UK he was placed in quarantine away from other alpacas on Helen’s farm in Wickwar, Gloucs, so had no other offspring while in Britain.
Helen said she was “delighted” to hear about the birth of his grandson.
She told The Sun: “Geronimo’s new grandson will ensure that his legacy and spirit always live on. Always.”
She added that Geronimo’s herd of origin in New Zealand had “never had even a suspicion” of bovine TB in 26 years.
She insisted he was “needlessly seized and killed” and accused Defra of making false claims about Geronimo’s bovine TB status six months on.
She said: “It’s still very hard to bear for me and all those who witnessed such unnecessary cruelty. There must be a public inquiry and reform of bTB policy.”
