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The 4 big goats.
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Awwwwww, I love goats! 
oh my gosh they are soo lovely esp. in their coats
Except Violet's coat is always hanging off and we have to keep fixing it, in the cold spell she had 2 on.:shock:
Charlie keeps walking out of his, and then feels cold.:roll:
We don't really know much about Pepper's history, but when we bought her she and Primrose were tethered. After she was home and free range she became very lame, we got x-rays taken and she has arthritis in both back legs, from quite a young age. To handle she would try and ram you and if that didn't work she would just give in and collapse. So we suspect she didn't have a great life before coming here. If she gets stressed, if she has to be in a lot due to the weather or Jack is picking on her ( we have seperated them now) she just stands and rubs her horns on the wall until they bleed. I think it is like some form of stress release, she is much better now, but I also think she did it when in pain, she is now on medication for her arthritis, so I hope that is helping too.
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Awwww, that's so sad.
We think goats often get badly neglected and it is overlooked because people don't really know about them. The problem is, lots of people want them as pets but think they are easy to keep because they are livestock- some of the worst cases of abuse we have seen have been in goats.
Jack was so thin when we got him, the vet couldn't find any muscle on him to give a needle and his back was bald because he had mange- the owner didn't even realise there was a problem, she had him tethered on the lawn with short grass, no hay and fed him horse mix. He was very nearly dead when we got him.
That's awful, and owner's ignorance is sadly all too common.
Why do people take on animals and not bother to spend a bit of time educating themselves properly about that animal's needs? (Not expecting an answer to that last one, just thinking out loud really)
