Greta Stamberg, DVM

I am part of Graceful Legend Llamas in Barnesville, Maryland. We have had one gelding as a pet/sheep guard since 1987 and have been raising llamas since 1992. I have had a fascination with llamas since I was 12 years old and it has done nothing but grow. I grew up raising sheep on a small farm. I participated in 4-H as a member for 10 years and as a Junior Leader for 2 more. I learned to train many animals during that time. I have halter trained sheep, cattle and llamas. I have also trained dogs and am currently working on earning a CD (obedience title) for my own dog.

I was an Animal Science major and in May 1994 I earned my Bachelor of Science from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. I learned a great deal about nutrition while I was there. It has enabled me to formulate my own feed for our llamas. During college and part of vet school, I worked with at Poolesville Veterinary Clinic. I learned many things about veterinary medicine while I was there. I got to see dogs, cats, sheep, goats, llamas, horses and cattle while working there.

I earned my DVM and became a veterinarian when I graduated in 1998 from Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine which is at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. In October of my senior year, I will be spent 3 weeks seeing camelids with Dr. Paul Jones at Woodburn Veterinary Clinic in Oregon. I work at Peachtree Veterinary Clinic in Beallsville, Maryland. It is a private practice where I see mostly small animals (dogs and cats) and a few llamas and alpacas as patients.

I chose to author Llamapaedia because I had access to someone with the computer skills to create a good quality web site (Derek) and I felt there was a need for this type of site. There were no sites with practical objective information on management for someone who already owned llamas or who was seriously considering purchasing them. There are not even a lot of books that pull many sources of information into a single comprehensive set of information. Other sites were set up to provide lists of information for owners and very basic information for the public. I have worked and continue to work hard to provide the most accurate practical information in one place that I can with the amount of time I have available.

Greta's Llama Related Activities:

• Show llamas regularly on the East Coast
• Performance Committee Chair 1996 ALSA Eastern Regional Championship Show
• International Llama Association member
• Attended 1994 and 1996 ILA Conference
• Llama Association of the Mid-Atlantic States member
• Attended 1993 LAMAS Conference
• 1995, 1996 and 1997 LAMAS Conference Speaker
• Greater Appalachian Llama Association member
• Attended 1993 GALA Conference
• Alpaca and Llama Show Association member
• Attended 1996 LaRue Johnson Neonatal Clinic
• Speaker at 1996 Pennsylvania Llama and Alpaca Expo
• Speaker at 1997 Chesapeake Llama and Alpaca Expo