Breakout: A pair of llamas roaming a street in Henstridge, Somerset (Picture: Tony Collins / BNPS)

They are herbivores which feast on plants – so why on earth would you think to tempt llamas with cat food?

Yet this is believed to be one householder’s successful plan to entice two of the 1.8m tall (6ft) creatures away after they ran amok in a street.

The duo are pets at a property 90m away and escaped by eating through the hedge surrounding their enclosure.

The pair are tempted by a woman carrying what is believed to be cat food (Picture: Tony Collins / BNPS)

Photographer Tony Collins captured the scene, explaining: ‘I looked out of my kitchen window to see what the weather was doing and there were two llamas on my lawn.


‘It was a bit of an odd thing to see and I didn’t know of anyone who had them, so I went to fetch my camera.’



He added: ‘By the time I had got it they were in someone else’s garden so I went outside and followed them around, and a neighbour had to chase them out of his garden.

‘Then one of the local ladies came out with a bowl of something and led them back to their home, which I then found out was on a road nearby.’

Finally, the owners of the llamas rounded them up at the scene in Henstridge, Somerset. ‘They are very inquisitive animals and they haven’t escaped before,’ they said.