It’s not unusual for a pub in Bristol to have an animal resident or two these days. Pub cats have become more common like the feline lodgers at The Coronation in Southville as well as Hotwells’ very own accidental cat pub, The Bag of Nails. Clifton’s The Alma Tavern is also much loved for its pub dog, Tiggy.
But perhaps the residents of The Rose and Crown in Pucklechurch are slightly more unusual - home to three alpacas. Located in a paddock at the bottom of the pub’s car park live Dotty, Rosie and Ayda, retired female alpacas from a farm in Tewksbury.
“I looked a bit into alpacas and found they were easy to keep,” said Rhiannon Wilkins, owner of the South Gloucestershire pub. “I reached out to a breeder of alpacas and he had three females that were no longer breeding so he was trying to find them a nice home.
