Deez Nuts
Another big week for the goats. This time it was Peanut’s turn in the spotlight. On Friday the vet came by and Peanut is now just Sweet Pea, with no nuts! Well, he’s still Peanut. Today is National Peanut Day by the way. I hope it doesn’t go to his head. But he deserves to be celebrated, along with his namesake which happens to be the favourite treat of the goats.
Everything seemed to go fine. It’s not fun to watch. But I’m glad it was done, finally. And now he can stay and be happy and make us happy. It will be interesting to see how it changes his behaviour. He was quite a wild and strong willed little guy. I’m sure he’ll still have a big ego (Wonder where he gets that from..) but maybe just a little mellower. And a little less stinky. Can’t say I’m sad about that. It’s all for the best.
And then on Saturday we had a surprise visitor. A Scottish photographer was biking past the playground I guess and heard the chickens. And saw the goats. And came in while I was talking to Bodil and watching Peanut recover. She asked if she could photograph us. So she went about her merry way taking photos of the goats and me and Katarina who was weekend feeding. And Bodil and Sif. It was quite fun. I got to practice my English. And talk about the goats. She seemed really nice and positive. And interested in us. Bodil and I were both really happy afterwards. It was a really nice experience. She’s studying at the Aarhus school of journalism I think it’s called. I think she was doing a project about animals. Not sure if we’ll be part of that or if she was just taking photos. But I’ve been talking to her on Facebook and she’s coming back to take more photos when I take the goats out of the pen. They were all in the pen on Saturday because I had to sit inside and take care of Peanut. He’s recovering well, but he was still tired and maybe feeling a little sorry for himself. He did just lose a couple of things that were important to him!
But that was fun. And we’ll see what happens. And now I’m incredibly tired and I really need to get to bed. So go go goat photos.
And videos.
And that’s all for this week, folks. See you in the next one.
September 18th, 2015 at 23:55
Poor boy! We had our boys neutered when they were around 12 weeks old. One of our friends used the “band method” on them. It’s a rubber-like band that eventually squeezes off the blood supply and everything drops off a few weeks later.
The boys weren’t too happy about sitting up on their back ends while the band was applied, but I don’t think the actual process was painful to them and there was no blood or stitches. They didn’t even know when it dropped off later.
Glad Peanut survived the process and he now is a part of the playground family!
September 20th, 2015 at 23:01
Yeah, the band method is a lot easier probably! Peanut was a little too old for that, though. Usually better to do it earlier. But at least he’s getting along well now. Hopefully he’ll forgive me some day!