The Goats Are Back!

​More goat stories! The boys have been home for a few days after eating down blackberries in mckinleyville for many months. One major upside is Spade no longer has his jewels and man, those suckers should have gone a long time ago. If you haven’t had goats, intact male goats literally pee all over their face and beard to attract females. Their pee smells like...well really bad goat. There is a reason why they say horny as a billy goat because it’s all they think about 24/7 so most of your interactions involve some sort of goat pee. Him with no balls actually pees for normal reasons and no longer on his face. This is a massive improvement for everyone else.
Today I decided to put them in the front yard. We are home so I can watch my two old dogs. I’m thinking it should be pretty peaceful and there’s stuff I don’t want to mow. Now I own one German Shepherd that has a ridiculously high prey drive, (read this as if it moves and breathes, she’s on it. Balls she could care less but animals are different). She has been going nuts completely obsessed with the goats. They’ve been in the trailer and it’s almost made her insane. We put her and our other female in the kennel. They’ve never gotten out or been able to get out. We’ve put them in there for 8 years now. I’ve never had an issue. She sees we took the goats out and probably 20 minutes later Marty jumps up and runs out. Os has managed to get out of the kennel and the goats are tied in the yard so they are sitting ducks basically. Somehow her and the other female pulled the door on the kennel open enough to squeeze all 90 plus pounds of her out. She didn’t bite them at all but she was wanting to herd them. Both Marty Pronovost and I are yelling at the dogs and trying to decide how to fix this. The dogs don’t have collars on so we grab goats and our daughter comes out. Now we have a pit bull in our house that can’t be with the other females either. Yes, we should call our house a zoo. Alona goes to put her dog in the house and Marty stops her before disaster number two which would be a pit bull German Shepherd dog fight. Those we have seen and they are ugly. She finally gets both dogs back to the kennel of which now has several bike locks on it and a few other things to make sure they can’t escape. No animal died today.
Meanwhile, Spade has decided that the front deck is pretty cool and I’m fairly sure he would like to be with us on the couch. Hunter is trying to decide if Spade should be allowed on the deck or not. He’s old though so doing anything about anything is a lot of work. Oh, and Carmel is in the back there laying in the sun eating grain. Goats are back home!

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