Goats are on my bad list!!!

[Gatorpupsmom]

Night before last we had a thunderstorm blow through. Wind got up, it hailed, it rained like a son-of-a-gun. I lay in bed wondering if the girls were okay, if their shed was providing adequate shelter, if the baby was weathering the storm.....

Oh, I needn't have worried. They were fine alright. SOMEONE (probably me) left the gate open and SOMEONE (again, probably me) forgot to lock the back door. The wind blew the door open, and the girls moved right on in for a party in the kitchen. When my husband got up to go to work, first thing he heard was the clang-clang of Mary's bell. He then uttered an expletive which also coincidentally described what was ALL OVER the kitchen floor!!!!

He then came back upstairs to inform me what MY goats had done. Just like with the kids or the dogs, when they screw something up, they are MINE. I had the pleasure of cleaning up the aftermath of about 1 1/2 hours worth of the goats "kickin' it in the kitchen...."

This morning (THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY) I got up and went out to tend the girls and do the milking. I put Mary, our Saanen doe, on the stand. While I was snapping her in place, she did her usual chewing and sniffing around on me. I wear an insulin pump, and I didn't realize that the tubing was what she was chewing on. Normally it's all tucked in, but this morning it wasn't........Didn't notice til I got back inside that THE CRAZY BEAST CHEWED A HOLE IN MY TUBING!!!! My husband said that he believes she is now trying to take me out of the picture.

She better keep me around. She is WAY more high maintenance than I, and without me around to defend her high maintenance ways, my husband will kick her bossy butt to the curb.

I take back every post I have made here about how much I enjoy my goats. If you don't have them already, stay away from goats. They are just a big ol' pain in the butt!!!!

 

[Farmer Kitty]

I think the case with any animal is; There are good days and then there are bad days.

Sounds like you are having a bad couple of days.

 

[freemotion]

If you are anything like me, once the clean-up is complete......oh, the story-telling material makes it so worth it in the long run!!! The chance to get people you barely know to get "that look" on their faces as you tell the story rather matter-of-factly. Like goats in the kitchen is a daily occurance. Priceless!

 

[mully]

In bet the goats had smiles on their faces as they left the kitchen ..for them it was a once in a goat lifetime to free range in a kitchen ...now how cool is that.

 

[helmstead]

 

[Chirpy]

Oh - I'm kinda sorry....

 

[bheila]

LMAO!!!!!

 

[Gatorpupsmom]

If you are anything like me, once the clean-up is complete......oh, the story-telling material makes it so worth it in the long run!!! The chance to get people you barely know to get "that look" on their faces as you tell the story rather matter-of-factly. Like goats in the kitchen is a daily occurance. Priceless!

LOL....my husband, who is quite proud of his redneckness, was MORTIFIED that I had told the story at work. MORTIFIED. He said that he bet my coworkers thought we were the world's biggest rednecks. He cringes every time I mention how I told the story to someone else.....

I told him that he should be a proud goat owner, that if he doesn't start showing his goatful pride we are going to vote him off the island. I am also reporting it here on this board, because he has recently started posting. He needs to be informed that being ashamed of the actions of one's goats will get you BANNED from this board.

You just have to understand that NOTHING embarasses him. NOTHING. I think it's hilarious that I have finally found a way to turn the tables and actually embarrass him......
Kim

 

[freemotion]

When I was a kid, my two siblings and I arrived at home on the schoolbus just in time to see our mother letting the goat kids out the front door of the house. My sibs were mortified, I thought it was proof that mom was way cool.

One of my rescues escaped and made it into a neighbor's kitchen a couple of years ago. I've enjoyed telling that story, too, as much as they probably have.

Enjoy your new weapon!!!

 

[Dorothy1324]

i too have to admit that my goats have made it into my house at times. The best was at my 6 year olds birthday party i was making burgers for the grill and one of the kids must of left the door open and well here comes cocoa who immediatly jumps onto the counter in the middle of the burgers. Silly old goat by the way we cooked the burgers anyway.