Timorese Goats

While i was not able to capture a photo of any goats on our recent trip to Timor-Leste, ends up Jess got this fine shot of a mixed bag of goats & sheep.

Northern Italian Goats

Met this fine goat in the Dolomites:

And also this wild goat-like «rupricapra»:

 

And milked these goats in the Piedmont region:

Man in goat suit seen living among goats in Utah mountains

Coty Creighton, 33, spotted the goat man Sunday during his hike. He said he came across the herd, but noticed something odd about one goat that was trailing behind the rest.

“I thought maybe it was injured,” Creighton said Friday. “It just looked odd.”

He said he pulled out binoculars to get a closer look at the herd about 200 yards away and was shocked. The man appeared to be acting like a goat while wearing the crudely made costume, which had fake horns and a cloth mask with cut-out eye holes, Creighton said.

“I thought, ‘What is this guy doing?’ ” Creighton said. “He was actually on his hands and knees. He was climbing over rocks and bushes and pretty rough terrain on a steep hillside.”

Creighton said the man occasionally pulled up his mask, apparently trying to navigate the rocky terrain. The man then appeared to spot Creighton.

“He just stopped in his tracks and froze,” he said.

Follow your goat

Bosnian Goats

Some goats we met in Bosnia…

Goats who climb to lick dam

Yes, those are goats. Here they are up close and personal.

Stupid Sheep

If you hate sheep as much as we do then you’ll think this is hilarious.

You won’t find goats this dumb that’s for sure.

Millennium Malawian Goat

We saw quite a few fine specimens on our recent trip to Malawi, including this handsome fellow:

He was hanging out near the maize storage facility in the Millennium Village of Mwandama. I blogged about that here, though it might appear my goat fetish is being replaced by simians.

We were also in the Millennium Village of Gumulira, where select households were given goats to try to recruit them to be goat lovers. I blogged about that here, including video footage of baby goats bonking heads under hanging tobacco.

On the homefront, no update on our own goat situation. We were thinking of moving to a friend’s house on the outskirts of Nairobi because they have goats, but a few nights ago they were violently burgularized, so now we’re thinking otherwise. Until that time comes, we’ll live out our goat dreams vicariously through others.

Oh, I did add some goat manure to our garden this morning, if that counts for anything?

one step closer

we had a bout of goiter to deal amongst other things, but now we are in greener pastures and one step closer to having our goat…

Greener Pastures

Our bid to obtain a goat from Eastern Kenya was rejected. Here’s the text of the email:

“Unfortunately the pastures in Nairobi (currently where they are) has no enough pasture for the goat and the goat may run away. Therefore, they think it should continue to graze in the extensive pastures of Dertu with the pastoralists until they they obtain an ideal grazing field.”

Maybe we should move to North Korea?

“Let’s extensively raise goats in all families!”