backyard surprises

[alanj]

Background:

Molly often jokes with me about bringing home randomly impractical objects or creatures. (A plasma torch. A couple dozen button quail. A huge Caterpillar tractor. A pony.)

Tomi is Molly's friend. She owns a small ranch with a seemingly constantly expanding collection of animals. Lots of horses, two German Shepherds, two Chihuahuas, a cat, and most recently, a small goat. She came over this afternoon to help Molly clean.

Leading up to this text-message conversation:

Molly: You should come by before Tomi leaves so you can see what she brought with her. =)
Alan: Please tell me it's not a pygmy goat
Molly: OK, I won't? Heh, it's just weed-eating the backyard as we clean. It has no interest in grass, amusingly.
Alan: ...you're serious? She brought a goat? I was joking.
Molly: She did! It's hanging out pretending it's on tryouts for the major leagues at Google.
Alan: LOL. How much longer is she there? Do I have time to stop for food?
Molly: Sure =)

Sure enough...

Comments

[khedron.livejournal.com]

Awwww! Yay, goat! They're very good at eating weeds. And leaves. And flowers. And grass. And...

[Edit:] That looks like a very small goat. Ours were regular size, but I did work with pygmy goats one summer in high school, while working at the zoo.

[trelana]

She's *tiny.* Around 3 months old, and not much bigger than the cats (one of which she head-butted when brought inside). She generally hangs out with the two chihuahuas and bichon frise. They all sleep in a pile. =)

[khedron.livejournal.com]

Wow! OK, very cute. I bet that's a great picture.

It does make this a much more portable goat than the ones I was used to, that's for sure. I will take back what I said about the goat eating leaves. Or anything taller than a Smurf.

[trelana]

She's absurdly adorable.

I don't have a picture of her piled in with the dogs, but here she is when Alan invited her in to horrify our cats. =)

[evwhore.livejournal.com]

My HOA contracted with some goat people a few years back to help with brush clearing for fire prevention etc. It was kinda neat driving into the neighborhood and seeing a whole bunch of goats grazing on the hillside.

[stevecohen.livejournal.com]

Aaaaarghgghh!!! The cute! It BURNS!!!

[stevecohen.livejournal.com]

Oh - and what's so impractical about a plasma torch or a huge Caterpillar tractor?

[khedron.livejournal.com]

It was attaching the one to the other that was the problem...