A much-loved alpaca died an agonizing death after eating Doritos dumped in its enclosure by a litterbug motorist.

The year-old animal suffered 36 hours of horrendous pain before succumbing to blood poisoning after eating the corn chips, peanuts and cheese nips hurled into the field by the driver after he’d finished eating them.

That man would dump leftover food in the field at Creekside Animal Hospital in Fleming Island, Fla., multiple times a week.

The baby alpaca which died an agonizing death after eating Doritos dumped in its field by a litterbug driver (Picture: Angela Austin/Facebook)

Staff there regularly cleaned up after the man to try and prevent the animals coming to any harm, but did not do so fast enough on this occasion.




Breaking the sad news on Facebook, Creekside said: ‘It is with a heavy heart that we want to inform our clients and friends at the elementary school that our youngest alpaca that was born out on the shared field over a year ago has passed away.

‘We have had a problem with a gentlemen in a blue car constantly dumping inappropriate food into the field several times per week. We have spoken to him on at least 4 different occasions.

‘This last visit, he dumped 3 boxes of animal crackers, 1 large bag of Doritos, 2 large boxes of cheese nips and 2 bags of whole peanuts.

The statement continued: ‘We know this because he leaves the litter behind every single time and we clean it up. Most of the time, we hope the food is eaten up by the herd and no one gets “too much”.

‘This was the first time peanuts were dumped.

Creekside Animal Shelter posted harrowing photos of the alpaca undergoing medical treatment, which was unable to save it from an extremely painful death (Picture: Creekside Animal Shelter/Facebook)

‘The alpacas are fed peanut hay every day and the little guy didn’t know any better and he overindulged.

‘We did everything we could for him including a blood transfusion from his father, but when alpacas suffer from endotoxemia, it is rarely something that can be fixed.’

Creekside added that the alpaca had to be given ‘a lot of pain medication because his belly was hurting so badly.’

News of the animal’s death prompted an outpouring of emotion from wellwishers.

Creekside staff are now set to move their surviving animals into another field in a bid to keep them out of harm’s way.