Archive for 2012
The Glamorous Life of a Goat Girl
When you have any kind of farm animals, you tend to get scratches, scrapes, bruises, insect and spider bites, and other skin lesions that burn, itch, or hurt like heck with some frequency. Welcome to the glamorous life of a goat girl!
Read on...Lease a Goat Through Eden Hills
Through Teresa’s Lease a Goat program, you don’t get physical custody of “your” goat, but you can follow her throughout the year as she has her baby, weans her kid(s), and watches them leave the farm.
Read on...Spotlight on Gemma the Baby Goat
Sometimes one goatie in particular turns up the caprine charm and does her little thing on the goat walk. Here’s Miss Gemma on a gorgeous Sunday morning in southern Italy, fresh off a hoof trimming.
Read on...GoatSpotting: Caribbean Island Goats
As you can see from the caption, these are Anguillian goats. According to my friend Arlene, “the St. Martin goats were too darn fast.”
Read on...All the Single Goaties (Build a Pen Around It)
I know I’m not alone in singing to and dancing around with my goaties, so I thought I’d share this little ditty I’ve been entertaining the girls with lately.
Read on...U.S. Coast Guard: Stop Using Goats in Horrific Training Exercises
I can’t bear to watch the video, but I can send a polite email to “U.S. Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security officials urging them to take immediate action to comply with federal regulations and completely replace the use of animals in military trauma training with superior non-animal training methods.”
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