The owner of an alpaca condemned to death by Defra has described the decision as 'barbaric'. Helen Macdonald's six-year-old alpaca, Geronimo, tested positive twice for bovine TB but the registered veterinary nurse insists he does not have the disease. A court hearing last week gave her a week to have him put down but she refused; meaning officials now have a 30-day window to come to her Gloucestershire farm and kill him themselves.