Kathi

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...I have to tell you this story as I think of

it everytime I read your posts....a couple of years

ago ...we took a ride and stopped at an out of the way

antique mercantile...the owner had a miniture goat

named Daisy...for me it was love at first sight,,,so

everytime after someone asked me what I wanted for

birthday...Xmas...whatever I said a miniture

goat....last spring my husband came home with this big

grin on his face and said there is something on the

front lawn for you.....never thinking it would be an

animal....because he gripes about the zoo all the

time....I went out to find the most adorable miniture

billy goat I had ever seen....instant love...and as he

was still being bottled fed it fed my maternal

instinct as well....we got a huge dog kennel and were

going to house break him that way ..as they can be

trained to be good house pets and will ask to go out

like a dog...anyway fit right in and was doing

great...my eight year old loved feeding him and we

were crazy about him...one day I said where is ?

As he followed us everywhere helping clean and do

chores...we found him in the kitchen ...we thought

asleep...I went over to pick him up and realized he

was gone ...I was devastated...I took him to the vet

thinking I had done something awful or wrong and

killed poor ....they told me years ago people

raised what they called fainting goats....they were

used at state fairs and shows as people thought it was

funny to see a goat faint...it was caused by something

in the way they were bred that they had blood pressure

fluctuations...anyway

over the years they have tried to breed it out

unfortunatly in my goat it was still in his

genes...and his faint was never returned from....I was

devesstated and have never replaced him...it was an

experience I never forgot...I still love to see goats

and we visit a farm close to us that raises goats but

I just have never been able to get another one...but

when I see your posts it brings back good memories of

....Kathi in OK

--- Temple <dat2352@...> wrote:

> Kathi,

> A girl after my own heart. I too have a zoo-well

> not as big as it once was

> but quite a few.

> Right now we have 5 dogs (breed miniature

> schnauzers), 4 cats,2 guinea pigs,

> 1 chinchilla and 10 dairy goats (breed and show

> them). This is way cut

> down. At one time we had well over 20 goats,

> chicken, ducks, ferrets,

> rabbits, turtle and finches. Oh and iguana, hedge

> hog, fish and frog. We

> do live on 9 acres and have a good size barn. And I

> agree that they are as

> you said biofeedback. My mother can't understand it

> at all, considering

> last year at this time I WAS in a wheelchair. I

> feed the wild bird too, no

> hummingbirds but I actually have a separate feeder

> for the squirrels.

> Temple

> 3 Fox Haven Way

> Chelmsford, MA 01824

>

> I know God won't give me more than I can handle. I

> just wish He didn't

> trust me so much.

> dat2352@...

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Hi Kathi...when the kids were little we lived way out in the country on

some acreage. I miss those days. The kids always had animals, and at

night I'd go out on the deck that overlooked the valley and lsten to the

owls and coyotes.

We had an ecentric elderly " neighbor " a mile away whose cattle liked to

roam all over our land....when I called to talk to him, he gave ME a

talking to about how it is still Free Range in Oregon (not where I

lived). Then there was the morning I awoke to hoofs clomping on our

deck....another neighbor's horse.

MY eldest daughter won many a ribbon showing rabbits with 4-H. Then we

had the cutest little Nubian goat named, " Rootin' Tootin' Newton, the

Neutered Nubian Puruvian Goat. " Th kids took turn feeding him with the

big baby bottle.

Ah, memories.....

Love & Hugs....

Tess

[Guest guest]

You are right a quaker is not a duck it is a small

parrot...some say parokeet but they are bigger....the

call them quaker or monks because they are green with

a grey bib...hence quaker or monk....one small bird

with a very large personality.....I dont think goats

smell bad...or any animal that is kept clean....hugs

Heidi....Kathi in OK

--- Heidi Steppe-Hoareau <steps122@...> wrote:

> ((((((Kathi))))))

> That was so sad, I’m so sorry to hear about .

> I’ve also always wanted

> a goat – they’ve got such personality! Everyone I

> know knows this and

> thinks I’m nuts but I just love them to bits. I

> even love their smell,

> which I'm told is " not normal " - apparently they

> don't smell good, but I

> disagree! LOL! What kind of bird is a Quaker? I’m

> picturing a duck but don’t

> think there’s a duck that can talk – sounds really

> interesting.

> ((((Hugs))))

> Heidi

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