One Of These Plumes Is Not Like The Others
Hello there. How nice of you to drop by. I have some goat pictures for you. I was meaning to post them yesterday, but then I fell asleep. Well, I didn’t just spontaneously fall asleep at the computer. I went to bed early and went to sleep and slept a lot. I seem to sleep a lot often these days. I don’t know how smart that is. It certainly doesn’t make for exciting blogging.
Anyway. Goats I said.
Mads and Poul, as featured in the video I also posted. They are quite impressive as they fight it out. I wonder why cock fighting is so popular and yet goat fighting isn’t? Oh yes, probably because that would be HORRIBLE. Pardon me. Speaking of horrible, I was zapping past the Animal Channel, I think it was, and there was some “animal cop” show. No, not animals dressed up as cops, chasing other animals dressed up as criminals. That would have been cute. This was something with human cops dealing with animals. There was a bunch of goats that were rescued from being sacrificed. Sacrificing goats? Man that gets my blood boiling. Those people must really be satan worshippers cause they’re going straight to hell. But anyway, it ended nicely with a bunch of happy goats in foster care and one of them even having triplet goat kids. So no fighting and no sacrificing, please.
I like when their teeth are showing, like Magnethe here. It’s like their skin is a tiny bit too short and then when they stretch out the skin gets pulled back a bit and their teeth show. Heehee. If you can’t tell from the picture, her hind leg is moving up and scratching her front leg.
Poul the buck. I never get tired of his ears. They’re so incredibly long. Sometimes I’ll sort of wrap them around his head, it makes him look almost like a little girl with a bow tied around his head.
Magnethe and Mads, and my leg. They were both trying to eat my pants. I’m only saying that to make conversation, it’s obviously a perfectly natural thing for a couple of goats to do.
A bit of a poor picture, but I like how Magnethe is all up in the camera’s face, with me and Mads in the background.
And finally let’s not forget a picture of Vanilje smiling, as per tradition.
That’s all for the goat pictures. And nothing else really going on, apart from all the sleeping. Tina Dickow concert on Saturday, Lost on Friday and goat babies any day now. Not too shabby. Now I’m off to bed. Imagine that.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:23
If we scratch John Boy on his rump, he will show his bottom teeth. Billy will only show teeth on a particulary good scratch. Frankie just half closes his eyes and gets really blissed out with a good scratching.
I like to watch the “Animals Cops”, too. Some of the stories are so sad, I almost can’t watch them. Every once in awhile, they show follow-up stories on what happened to the rescued animals. It’s good to see how much better the animals look and that they have people to love them.
It would be very hard to be one of those animal cops. They aren’t able to save all the animals and they show that sometimes as hard as it is to see. Some of the dogs are just too aggressive with food issues and aren’t able to be adopted for fear they would attack someone.
Well, we missed the mega snow again. Only received around 2-3 inches, but it was windy and we had rain first. Was several inches of water standing in the yard going out to the goat pen. Goatzies have spent time in the barn as there has been little sun, lots of wind, and snow.
First sunny warm day, they will be wanting to go for a walk. Last time they were out, my husband had the truck door open and Frankie jumped inside. I think he would drive if we let him (and he had a license). The other two goats look at him like: “Why would a goat be inside a truck?”
February 7th, 2008 at 10:44
I carry the turtle tank outside every morning for their daily sun batheing, and they will stay there until later in the afternoon around 3pm when I change their water and scrub their tank.
I let the turtles take a walk in the backyard though not too far away since there are so many bushes and trees that they could disappear in them and not be found for days.
Lately, they’ve been keen on going back into the house (It’s been terrible cold and chilly in SanDiego.) I guess it’s too cold for them to go exploring so they head into the kitchen and surrounding rooms. Again, I can’t let them go too far since the rooms are big and they could hide under the furniture.
I’m sure, just like Frankie, they would take over a trunk or house and make them their own!!
The first sign of world animal domination–the driving of gas power machines and the quiet sliding and locking of french doors leaving owners trapped outside.
Be careful Plume–that ‘smile’ Vanlije is like Mona Lisa’s. You never know what’s in their pretty heads:
–Taking over the world and making all submit to the leaders of the goats.
–Disneyland becomes Goatland.
–Goat cheese is outlawed.
February 7th, 2008 at 21:44
Debster – I love scratching goats, their reactions and the sheer bliss.
I wish there were more “happy” animal programs. It’s always vet programs with sick pets or cop programs with people abusing animals or else it’s “world’s most dangerous shark attacks” or “dramatic lion assaults”. I want to watch programs like “cute little kittens sleep a lot” and “dogs like to play” and of course “goats getting up to no good”. Yups.
Today’s joke:
Q: Why would a goat be inside a truck?
A: Because the human forgot the food in there!
Hmm, I’m not going to quit my day job.
LuisLemmings– Turtles in the sun. That sounds very calm and relaxing. Do you watch My Name Is Earl? There’s a “Mr Turtle”. it’s a small role though.
I wouldn’t mind the goats taking over the world. I think I have built up enough good-will for myself to get a nice cushy job in the administration.