Good goat times today. Light rain on and off all day. So it was mostly spent in the goat house. Wrangling goats.
The big question was of course, would Luna still have her collar on?
Spoiler alert: No. She would not.
I put it back on her, so we’ll see how long it lasts this time. If she keeps getting out of it then it will probably end up being lost. She doesn’t mind wearing it at all, but since it easily tears away, I figure she breaks it while doing one of the full body scratches they like doing against things.
But other than that a quiet day with not much happening. I am ready for some soup now.
28/10 2024
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Luna sez: I’ll be out of this thing five minutes after you’ve left, just wait and see.

28/10 2024
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Bella has been standing on the rock a lot lately. I don’t know if it’s because we’re into the wet season and she wants to get off the ground more, or if she just only realised it’s there recently. Anyway, it’s always cute when goats stand on things.

28/10 2024
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29/10 2024
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Got an hour ten on the bike today. Back to work after a week and a half’s break.
Felt good to get back on it, although I wasn’t feeling great and even the short break from cycling makes you feel like you’re starting almost over.
It was my own fault I wasn’t feelnig well. Yesterday I bought two bags or pistachio nuts. And I ended up eating BOTH bags in one evening. Geez. Completely nuts. So nuts. Just goes to show I can’t be trusted with them. The only way to win the game is not to play. I can’t limit myself, hopefully this will teach me not to buy them.
My blood sugar levels have risen a bit lately. They are still in the acceptable range, but now they’re in the highest values of the range. That’s not great. I’ll do my best to get them back down to the lowest levels.
My weight has been stable, although flushing teh whole system because of the nut intake may have helped that today..
Anyway, good to get back on the bike. Now just to keep at it. And no nuts for November, hopefully.
Didn’t sleep well last night because of running to the toilets to get rid of nuts. So I’m pretty tired now. S M R T!
29/10 2024
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Good goat times today. The goats were good, me not so much. Started feeling dizzy and short of breath on my walk there. And my back started hurting really badly. Not great. So only an hour or so of goating for me before I headed home.
I was hungry in the morning, but didn’t get any breakfast. S m r t. Not sure how much to blame that was. I did grab some of the goats’ peanuts and carrots, didn’t seem to help too much.
I’ve also been trying some new stretches for the back, and I guess that’s what made my back hurt so much. Maybe it was the combination of pain and no fuel that made me go all weak. Maybe it was getting back on the bike yesterday that drained my system, maybe there’s some sickness lingering. I’m not a doctor, Ji.
Been home for a while now and feeling fairly ok. Ready to get some soup and maybe to bed early.
We had some sweet visitors in the goat pen today, petting the goats. There was a little girl who was petting Luna and then she bleated and the girl went “It made a sound! Why does it make sounds?!”. Aw. Jeanette is great with the visiting kids, answering questions and always being enouraging and telling them how well they’re doing and how brave they are etc. A lot of visiting kids are a litlte nervous meeting goats for the first time, so they get a nice win when they dare pet the dangerous monsters.
Anyway, what was that you said about soup?
30/10 2024
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Jeanette was doing some work. Bella was supervising.

30/10 2024
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Bella sez: Nice wheelbarrow, would be a shame if someone were to jump into it…
You’ll never believe what happened next.

30/10 2024
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A. Few. Moments. Laterr.

30/10 2024
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Well I’m not feeling reat. Stayed in bed this morning. Did get up later, and did do an hour on the bike. So that’s something. But it wasn’t easy. No energy, quickly out of breath, much more than usual. I don’t think you can get out of shape that fast just from not exercising in a week and a half, so i must still have some sickness lingering. Maybe i got some long covid. Nah, I wasn’t that sick. But hopefully I just need a couple more days to get back to normal.
Happy Halloweenies everyone.
31/10 2024
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Happy Halloween you alls. Recently looking at old videos of Palle when picking flashback posts for the goat page has made me really feel how much I miss him. I miss all of them of course. There were some great goat loves in my past. But at least I got a lot of time with most of them. More than a decade with Mia and Mio. Palle was so special and went so young. I can look at the videos of hm now and feel happy for the time we had. Not quite there with Mia, that heartbreak is still very open. But I do think i am fairly good at being goat. Living in the moment and not dwelling. Mostly. Sometimes.
Anyway, happy Halloween. May the Ghosts’n’goats bless you with benign visits.
31/10 2024
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Well, good news. I have been granted financial aid for the glasses. So I can get them for free. It’s been a month of running in circles, bput wee got there.
EXCEPT. They sent the grant electronically and I have to give it to the optician. I don’t have a printer. My parents’ printer is malfunctioning.
i reached out to Jeanette and she said that she would try to print it for me. She’s the best. So hopefully that will work out.
Hooves crossed.
1/11 2024
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I said i was feeling better earlier. But I have to take that back. i’m not really feeling sick, but I’m feeling pretty weak and tired. I’m kind of getting out breath just walking around my apartment. Clearly I’m not back to normal. Hopefully a couple of days will get me back.
I almost wondered if i’d hurt my lung. One of the new stretches I was doing had me lying on my back on my bed with my head and shoulders over the edge, kind of trying to stretch back like that. Because my back pain has been around the under the shoulders place sometimes. Almost wondered if I’d poked a lung.
It reminds me a little of how I felt before I lost the weight and got in shape, there was a period.. when was it, a year and half ago? When I was out of shape and getting tired and out of breath quickly. i even had lung xrays back then, I remember they found some kind of minor lung change or something, not something that was deemed important.
But just that feeling of getting out of breath with minimal efffort.
Anyway, hopefully it’s just because I’ve been sick. Time and getting back to the regular exercising will hopefully clear it all up.
I can’t believe it’s November already. We made it this far.
1/11 2024
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Preparing for election night.

1/11 2024
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I had an almost traumatic catastrophe last night. As I was getting ready to go to bed I accidentally pushed my TV and it fell over and off the desktype thing it was on. Crashed to the ground. I can’t tell you the panic that set into my head. I use that TV as my computer screen. My computer is my lifeline. Getting a new TV would be a big ordeal, and there’s pretty much no chance I could get the same model anymore and who knows if I could get anything as good and easy to use for my special needs anymore.
I know it may seem silly, but imagine you thought someone had cut off both your legs. That’s how I felt. Disaster.
THANKFULLY. I got the TV back up and it was okay. Took some work to get everything plugged back in. But the TV seems to be working okay still. Gurgh. My external hard drives aren’t working though, the falling TV pulled a bunch of cables some USB cables too. I’ve plugged them all back in, but the two external hard drives I have are not showing up in the computer. Hopefully they’re not broken, hopefully I missed some cable or something. i’ll have to take a closer look. Replacing an 8tb hard drive wouldn’t be fun. I do have backups though so there shouldn’t be any data loss at least.
So that was a bit of a heart attack.
How am I feeling other than that? I’m not sure. I started coughing earlier and felt like my throat might be hurting a bit. I used my mouth spray and I seem to be feeling ok right now. But there’s still something going on in my system I am pretty sure. I am going to try to go exercise. Not too much, just a little to get the pulse up and see where I’m at.
I got a bunch of other technical issues i’m dealing with and i’m kind of feeling stressed and depressed along with the somewhat sick and weak and breathing and all. Not feeling super. But at least my TV is working.
Hope you’re all doing well out there. TTYL LLAP
2/11 2024
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Got an hour on the bike. Took it pretty easy. Definitely still not up to speed. As soon as I started the intervals I was out of breath. But I’m not coughing and my throat isn’t hurting, so maybe that was false alarm. Just gotta give it some time.
Not fun afterwards though, as I spent hours working on technical stuff. First my alarm clock has started behaving erratically, and in order to get to the power outlet I had to move my bed haha everything is going swell huh. Well the alarm clock is dead now. Sigh.
Not that important. Much worse is that my external hard drive also seems dead. I think it’s the cable input plug that broke. I spent hours working on it and other stuff with the wires and stuff with the computer and tv. Lots of time in awkward positions, my back is killing me now.
And the hard drive is probably gone. Replacing it will not be cheap, an 8tb external hard drive would cost more than the glasses, maybe I can get financial aid for the hard drive too! Haha. Gallows humour.
Ah well. I still have a couple of things to try, but I think I will have to get a new one. And even if I get a smaller model it will still be expensive. Bummer.
Just feeling frustrated and stressed. And out of breath and in pain.
But I will try to calm down with some soup. Go with the flow. Of the soup into ma mouth.
November’s off to a great start, can’t wait to see what happens next..
2/11 2024
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Thinking goat thoughts, with Sky.

2/11 2024
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3/11 2024
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Oh yeah, with everything going on I forgot to mention that this happened at the playground. I don’t know if you can tell from the photo, but the platform broke. It’s slanting downwards.
When I made it, I wedged it resting on the two troughs that went along the walls. Bella and Luna love jumping up in those and standing and walking on them. And they finally broke the one on the right, it tipped downwards, which means the platform is no longer level. So that’s a bummer. It’s still stable, but I don’t know how much they will want to use it to stand and sit on when it’s crooked like that. I guess we’ll see.
Jeanette told me that she had found out that they have a little more money in the budget than they thought, and the plan is to have carpenters come by, before christmas, and finally fix the platforms out in the pen (finally get the ramps better for the goats) and make an outdoor shelter that Sky can use when it’s raining and the big girls won’t let her in. And maybe the carpenter can fix this platform too. We’ll see. First priority would be the ramps on the platforms outside, they’ve been on the to-do list for years. And an outside shelter for Sky would be really great. I would like that.

3/11 2024
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Don’t stand so, don’t stand so, don’t stand so goat to me.
Just kidding. Keep your friends close and your goats closer, but if your friends are goats, keep them very close.
Anyway. I’m feeling fine, as long as I sit still. When I start doing stuff I get drained and winded. Hopefully my energy levels will increase soon.

3/11 2024
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Hello hello.
I’m feeling fairly okay today. Mostly just tired. I probably could have made it out today, but I’m going to take another day or two. Make sure I’m back to good.
I saw ‘Denmark’ trending in the United States on twitter and had to look what was going on. Turns out it’s just about McDonalds and McDonaldMcDumb. I was going to write a whole big thing about it, but what’s the point. What an embarrassment. Skippit.
21/10 2024
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22/10 2024
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I felt pretty good when I got up today. Almost normal. Decided to take one more day to get fit. Maybe taht was a good idea, because later in the day I sort of crashed. Not really a ‘feeling sick’ crash. More like a “i’m so depressed I can’t get out of my chair, I’m going to nap here for two hours and order pizza”.
But on the bright side, now I have pizza.
And on the sickness side I think i’m pretty much good to go. Onwards and upwards, eventually.
22/10 2024
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Good goat times today. Finally back where I belong. After almost a week away. It’s not often I’m away from the goats for that long. I really needed some goat time. So good to see Jeanette too of course, been a week and a half at least because she’s been off on vacation. Now the gang’s back together, ready to party goatstyle!
A beautiful sunny day. Cold. Down below 10C/50F in the morning, but a bit higher after the sun had time to do its thing.
I was only there for about an hour and a half. Still tired. Not feeling sick anymore, but I can feel that I’ve been sitting still for a week almost. My body needs to get into the swing of things again. Build up my energy reserves again. You know, get some fumes back in the tank so I can run on fumes again.
I know, it’s a hard life, but at least I carry it with dignity.
But just good to sit with the furs and the feathers again. Everyone doing fine. A mother with a couple of kids came and got to feed the goats.
Pretty drained no, must fill up on soup.
23/10 2024
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Happy to be back with my goat fambliy.

23/10 2024
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Something bad did happen while I was away from the goats. This tree here in the middle broke. It was long dead, it didn’t survive when goats moved in and started eating it. But it was nice having it there still. It had a little cut off brance sticking out, and Jeanette used to use that to hang up the bouquets of branches she would bring for the goats.
I’m not sure what happened to it. It was dead and pretty thin, I’m not sure if a hard wind could bring it down. The goats would sometimes lean or rub on it. But it seems mot likely, and that’s what Jeaenette figured too, that someone came by and broke it off. Not sure wny anyone would do that, and I sure hope no one is bothering the goats.
But I don’t know. It’s a bummer, but what can you do.

You can see it to the left of Bella in this one https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10160805114213657&set=a.10160215975013657

23/10 2024
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Good goat times today. Getting back into the hang of things. Still feeling more tired than usual, but other than that pretty good. Gotta get back on the exercise bike again soon too. But baby steps. Baby goat steps.
Another cold day, this time almost no sun to warm us up.
But lots of visitors. The neighbour school crew came by, lots of regulars. Jeanette was cooking up some stuff on the campfire, not sure what. She found some eggs that the feathers had laid, but they were too old so she didn’t want to make an omelette out of them. Apparently Henrietta lays green eggs, which is funny.
The visually impaired girl Beren came too, always a highlight. She came over to the fence on her own, and Jeanette was off elsewhere. So I let her in through the gate so she could spend some time with the goats. She loves the goats. She was kneeling down and talking to Luna, and Luna started nibbling at her sleeve and Beren laughed and laughed about it. Her Danish isn’t perfect but she asks lots of questions and I try to answer her. She remembers the goat names, but has to ask which one is which. All the goats got some cuddles from her.
It’s just lovely when there are kids who so calm and sweet and interested in the goats and appreciative of it. I prefer that to the kids who are loud and running around. A lot of them have some developmental challenges I think, so it’s not like they’re bad kids. But some of them can be a handful for sure. As long as they are nice to the animals then we are good.
Well there’s more to talk about, but I am tired and I need soup. All work and no soup makes Lasse a dull mud golem.
24/10 2024
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Jeanette brought a bouqet of branches for the goats again today, it may be the last of the season. Not many fresh leaves. With the old tree where she used to hang the bouquets broken, we needed a new place. There was a good branch that worked on the big tree here. Not as good as the old way, it’s harder having three goats around this one. I took a couple of the branches and put them on the fence, so Sky could snack on them there.

24/10 2024
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Well, I had progress on the glasses situation today, believe it or not.
It’s been three and a half weeks since I had the meeting with the optician. And to recap, the optician sent an application for it being financed by the health care system, the health care system told me the optician hadn’t given all the info they needed, I called them, they said they needed info from my eye doc, I called my eye doc who said they couldn’t just send that, the health care system had to request it through their systems, then last week the healthcare place didn’t answer their phone, probably because of vacation. And they only have open phones for two hours twice a week.
So, that’s previously on Glasses For Lasses. When I got home from the goats today I called back to the healthcare place. Didn’t start out great, i waited on hold for 20 minutes and then gave up. Oh boy. I had some other stuff to do, so I did that. And then tried again. And this time I got through immediately. Talked to a very nice guy who told me that, actually the info they needed isn’t really the kind of stuff that would be in my medical journal from my eye doc anyway, so I should just answer some questions from him instead.
What the what. Why did the lady I talked to the first time I called them say that they needed info from my eye doc then? And why did she say I had to get in touch with my eye doc and tell them to send it when that’s not how it works, they’re supposed to request it electronically.
I don’t know, man. Turns out the info they needed were basically 3-4 informal questions like “why do you need them, what effect does the sunshine have on your vision”. Sheesh. I guess it’s partly my own fault for not being more pro-active and chasing it down more, my avoidance and then being sick and then vacation delayed it all so much. But it’s kind of silly when all they needed were basic answers to a couple of questions.
They guy today was super nice and friendly and helpful though, after a few questions he laughed and said “well I can’t really think of anything else to ask”. And that was it. Now he’s going to talk it over with his colleagues and then I should get a reply to my application soon. So. Hooves crossed they accept it and I can get my glasses made soon. I’m not really hopeful that it will mke a huge difference, but any difference would be a help so let’s hope. ANd let’s hope it all gets done soon.
24/10 2024
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Sky getting a share of the leaf, at the fence.

24/10 2024
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Holding out an apple to see if I can get Sky to come over and join in, but look who comes a flapping. Red Sonja is just too much fun. Now that Sky won’t always come all the way to the fence in the morning when i get there in the morning, I sometimes have to throw a peanut in for Sky while Bella and Luna are hogging theirs at the fence. Well if Sonja i nearby she’ll sprint over and grab the peanut from the ground and run away with it before Sky even has a chance to get it. You have to be fast! Good thing I have plenty of peanuts. Although i’m trying to cut down on the treatsgiving. The little girls are getting fat too. Oh oh.
25/10 2024
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Luna is wearing her heart on her sleeve, and her hay on her back.

25/10 2024
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A sketch where Debbie Downer is unfrozen from carbonite and suddenly she’s the upbeat optimist of the group because everyone else is beat down by the time we live in.
Also, if Batman is bitten by a vampire would he be able to turn into an actual bat? And would he then be BatBat?
I’m so glad Mel Gibson has an opinion on Kama’s IQ, it atkes attention away from all the racism, violence and misogyny he usually rants on about. HOORAY WHO WANTS TO EAT.
When the Olsen Twins turn 90 I think they should do a Full House spinoff where they play Michelle with split personality syndrome and just as a really miserably psychotic b-word. Just like the fanfic I used to write.
Orangeotang isn’t Hitler, he’s Hitler Jr in a Gene Wilder movie.
Home Alone 3: Kevin’s Got A Gun. The only thing that stops a couple of bad guys with wet towels is a good kid with a gun. It’s 2020s, no need to set up booby traps, just shoot ’em. Stand your ground, get a job on Fox news.
Why does Denmark only trend on twitter when you guys are talking about McDonalds?!
Craig Ferguson’s podcast Joy is on youtube now and it’s a delight. Craig Ferguson, the best podcast and the best late show host. Not to mention author and actor, is there anything that guy can’t do?!
And Soft-Ice for all.
I don’t know why you’re blaming the government for creating the hurricanes, we all know it’s butterflies flapping their wings in Tokyo.
Facebook: “Lasse, here are some groups you might like”. Narrator: “He did not like them”.
No nut November is going to be a big change from my All The Nuts October. Had some more pistachios the other day. Mm.
Sometimes I can’t see the forest for the lack of trees.
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And that concludes our condensed twitter summary. Engange laughtrack.
25/10 2024
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26/10 2024
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Well, I was supposed to exercise today. Instead I did not exercise and ordered pizza.
Whoops.
Well, I’m not sick anymore, but hey I worked hard for a long time. I deserve a little break. Next week, back to exercising. I guarontee.
Need to get a little healthier again too, I’ve been eating too unhealthily while I was sick and resting too.
There’s always something to work on!
Tomorrow is daylight saving change in Denmark.
And the longterm forecast has freezing night temperatures coming up. Urghk.
My facebook feed is full of sponsored posts and it’s making me not really want to look at my facebook feed, sorry if I’m missing stuff.
Still watching old SNL episodes and the other day I watched a cold open featuring portrayls of a senator Joseph Biden and someone called Clarence Thomas who was trying to become a judge or somehing, haha, time keeps on slipping, everything proceeds cyclically, as above so below, intercourse between worlds. I have the fury of my own momentum.
Anyway. Do you even Twin Peaks, bro?
26/10 2024
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Just watched the new Epic Rap Battles Of History release. Donald vs Kamala.
Oy. Too real.
I’m disappointed they didn’t have Donnie just standing there silently swaying back and forth for 45 minutes, but I guess that wouldn’t have been a great rap battle.
I prefer fictional villains like Darth Vader and Hitler, wait I didn’t mean that like denying the holo.. gram Tupac.
Something something. My facebook reach is tanking.
Sorry bout the politics talk, but you know tis the season. For scarecrows and pumpkins and the deciding of the fate of the world and all that.
This world, this is not my kind of world.
Once the election is over I’ll crawl back into my hollow and come back in another 4 years to look for my shadow, and the other pale riders.

26/10 2024
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Alright alright, goat content. Gotta feed the beast. I mean, the Bella.
I have a goat update development from this week, but I need to get photos done first, probably won’t be ready till tomorrow. I am tired and my head hurts and I ate too much pizza, feed the Lassebeast.

26/10 2024
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Well, well, well. What do we have here.
Goats in collars.
There’s actually only one collar, Bella and Luna are just taking turns modelling it.
I was thinking about how to make it easier to tell the girls apart. Before Jeanette went on vacation I asked her if I went and bought a collar for one of them, would they object? The playground I mean, not the goats. Jeanette said they wouldn’t object to that, but if I waited till she came back from vacation she’d buy one. So this week she went and got a collar.
My first thought the first day was that Bella was going to be the one wearing it. She’s a little feistier, maybe wearing a collar would help control her.
Well, she had other plans. She did not want to have that thing put on her. She’s a smart girl. She knows when something is up. Feisty and independent. She reminds me a little of Mia in that way, she knows when our intentions aren’t ‘noble’. She a bit less.. trusting I guess. Than Luna. It’s like if i want to put both arms around her in a hug then she’ll pull away like “no you’re no trapping me”. But then if i get my arms around her and scratch her she’s totally happy with it. She’s cuddly and loving, just with a little hint of initial standoffishness.
After several attempts to get the collar on her, we finally did it. Only because she was backed into a corner in the storage room when Jeanette was getting hay.
So that’s the top picture. Bella wearing the collar. Now the collar is a breakway type, if you grab a hold of it then it’ll just snap free. I didn’t realise that beforehand, kind of negates the idea of using it to control her a bit. Hah. Of course the big question was whether that collar would stay on. She didn’t see to mind having it on at all, once it was on her. But it would be easy to get off.
And no, it didn’t. Next day Bella was collarfree. Jeanette found it out in the goat pen. Hopefully no one was trying to grab it and hold her, she probably managed to pull it off herself or get it caught in a headbutting with Luna or something.
I gave it a go of putting it back on her, but then realised it would probably be much easier to put it on Luna. And it was. Luna has a much chiller and more immediately trusting and cuddly demeanor. She literally just stood there as I put it on her, no problem. I took it on and off like 3 or 4 times to adjust it, she didn’t bat an eyelid. She’s such a little sweetheart. Total cuddlebug and lapgoat.
So that’s the second picture, Luna wearing the collar. That’s how we left it Thursday. Now we’ll see if Luna decides to keep it on or not! If she also manages to tear it off then maybe we’ll just have to give up the idea of a collar. It would make it easier to tell them apart, but it’s no disaster if it doesn’t work out. I’ll let you know if it turns out to be a short term experiment of if it’s going to last!

27/10 2024
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Luna in her new collar. While Bella is thinking “dodged that bullet!”. We’ll see if Luna has ditched her collar when I see her again.

27/10 2024
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That’s all for now.