Drags A Leash
Today sprung a nice surprise on me. It was the annual animal show at the playground. I was not aware. I hadn’t seen the posters posted.
Oldtimers might remember that I won a gold medal with Magnethe a couple of years ago. http://plume.dk/blog/?p=69. That there entry. With a sweet, young Magnethe.
I started to suspect something when a girl came and tried to get Mads on a leash. That is not an everyday thing. I had to help her out. You can imagine how Mads felt about the whole thing. He does not like being dragged around. He was making those guttural grunty noises when he saw her coming towards him with the leash. The same kind of noises he makes if Magnethe ór Vanilje get too close when there is food. I think they mean something like “get away from me!”. Unfortunately the human girl did not understand it the same way the goat girls do. So he ended up on the leash. Funny, normally you’d see the goats trying to get OUT of the pen. But this time Mads was trying to get back in. He didn’t want to leave me. Or was it the hay?
Then Kurt came around and asked if I was coming to the animal show. To which I replied yes, of course. Now that I knew it was there. And then he asked if I wanted to be their photographer for the day. Which I also accepted, naturally. I had to run home to get new batteries, though. In a stroke of great luck I found my batteries running low and my backup-batteries also running low. Perfect timing on a day when I’d count on spending lots of battery power.
But I ran home and got new ones and had a good time. Came back with almost 2 gigabytes of pictures and video. I shall try to get some of it fixed up and posted and tell you all about the show, as soon as possible.
In the meantime.. as you were.
PS. appartment appartment appartment!
July 6th, 2007 at 2:19
Poor Mads. Our goatzies don’t take to leashes very well either. Billy has had a little cough the last few weeks and we gave him some antibiotics for three days. (I was Nurse Debster and gave him an injection. He was okay with it, and I was a real pro on the third day).
He still has the cough, so we loaded him and my husband up in the back of the pickup truck and headed 2 miles into the vet. Billy did very well actually. I think he was curious as to where we were going. The vet listened to his lungs and said they were clear. And as long as he was eating and acting normal not to worry.
So we headed home and I think Billy was ready to go for a longer ride! I’m sure he had plenty to tell the other two goats who didn’t get to go for a ride. (I’m sure the vet thinks we are nervous and crazy “goat parents” worried about our goatzies”.)
The county fair is going on and we got to see many, many rabbits. Even a “Giant Flemish Rabbit”. They are really, really BIG! Also the “Lionhead” rabbit – it has tufts of long hair on its head and around its neck, just like a lion.
Saw some sheeps, cows, piggers, and of course GOATS! They were dairy and meat goats and one little baby pygmy goat. Mads, Magnethe, and Vanilje and our three boys don’t have anything to worry about. They are all “Winners” as far as I’m concerned.
Glad you were able to take photos of the animal show. That should be great fun to see. I remember seeing pix of the other one you were in.
July 6th, 2007 at 21:48
Debster – I hope Billy will be okay. I like the thought of him coming back with stories to tell the other goats! I kinda have the same image of Mads from the animal show. Vanilje and Magnethe did not get to participate. So I imagine Mads coming back and bragging about his gold medal. Yes, he won a gold medal! We’ll never hear the end of that. Although he wasn’t too thrilled while it was going on of course. He had to let a human (can you imagine?!) drag him around in a circle in front of spectators and a judge. The things you do for glory..
Is a Giant Flemish Rabbit bigger than a Giant Belgian Rabbit? What is Flemish exactly, isn’t that in Belgium? Or am I showing my lack of geographical knowledge once again..
For once I think I have you beat in the “spotted animals” category. I mean, animals I spotted.. not animals with spots. Anyway, there was a turtle at the animal show! okay, it was a small one. But beat that!
I am working on the pictures right now. There are some real sweet ones, although more of the kids than of the animals. A couple of funny Mads shots as well, not surprisingly.
July 7th, 2007 at 3:37
A Giant Flemish Rabbit is from Holland, is a gentle laid back bunny weighing 15-16 pounds and is around 22 inches long. They came to America in the 1880’s (didn’t say if they swam or hopped!)
I found a Belgium Hare from Belgium that is very energetic, playful and weighs around 8 pounds. A really cute bunny is the Dwarf Hotot (ho toe). It’s tiny and weighs around 3 lbs and is from Germany.
I had to Google them to find out more. I know only a little about our wild cottontail rabbits we have around here. We had a rabbit nest under one of the goat spools with 4 baby bunnies. Smart mama bunny built it inside the fence so the dogs couldn’t get in. The goats never even seemed to see the babies, but they do notice the mama bunny but just ignore her since she isn’t a threat to them.
We saw a quail, bunches of squirrels (one with a white tail), and some deer. No spotted turtles, though! You got me there! Hope Mads doesn’t get too big of a head since he won the gold medal. There will be no living with him now.
July 7th, 2007 at 22:22
Debster – Holland. That’s almost Belgium! I wasn’t far off. I bet they have big ears, maybe they “helicoptered” over the sea.
Æsel, the big Danish bunny, has hopped into the goat enclosure a couple of times recently. The goats just ignore him. Apart from this one time. Vanilje had her face buried in hay when he jumped up to her. She hadn’t seen him coming, too busy munching. When she did see him she jumped away startled. Then she realized it was just a little (relatively speaking) bunny and went back to munching.