Charlene Deborah Arendas "Char"

Interests

• I am very interested in llamas and alpacas, and plan on focusing my career towards camelid medicine. I would, however, enjoy owning a mixed practice, where I could get the chance to work with both large and small animal patients.

Activities

• Food Animal Club
• Therio Club
• VBMA
• Lowellville Mount Carmel Band
• Mahoning County 4-H Advisor
• Relay for Life
• showing llamas through ALSA
• llama pack trials through PLTA

Pets

• 34 llamas
• 2 alpacas
• 1 Arabian horse
• 1 Eskimo Spitz
• 2 Cats
• 40 assorted chickens
• 1 peacock

Undergraduate Institution, Major/Degree(s) Awarded

• Youngstown State University
• BS – Biology, Summa Cum Laude, May 2004

Favorite Quotes

• "One can't believe impossible things."
• "I dare say you haven't had much practice", said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland