ramshackle

[asakiyume]

While the ninja girl and I were on an errand yesterday, this goat climbed up onto something in the center of its little prison and called to us with sad-sounding mews. We wished we could take it home with us.

In front of it, empty soda bottles lie collapsed around a traffic cone, on top of which are two inverted plastic cups.



Over on a ways is a discarded Christmas tree, a chair, and baby stroller, and other stuff.



It is one of B-town's more Winter Bone-like corners.

Comments

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Poor Goat :(

[noachoc.livejournal.com]

That's a very attractive goat.

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

poor little sad goat

[paulie123.livejournal.com]

I dearly love goats. We had five or six at one time. If I sat in the field where they were grazing, Precious, my particular favourite would sit in my lap and ask for cuddles. And the milk! Delicious.

[coldhighmountai.livejournal.com]

It doesn't look like the goat has shelter from the elements.

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

What a depressing place, poor little goat! It doesn't seem quite right to keep an animal in that way...

[grayheyes.livejournal.com]

where was this?

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Poor little fella. He's begging for rescue!

[writeonq.livejournal.com]

Are there any kind of animal laws (and people to enforce them) where you live? I'm not usually one to butt my nose in, but that goat's situation seems a lot less than ideal. (And he is such a gorgeous creature!)

[desert-sparrow.livejournal.com]

Very sad. He does seem to be asking for help.

[rivertumbled.livejournal.com]

i want that goat!
i do agree that you should call and report it. maybe he/she is just fine, but if he/she ISN'T...

poo. i really want that goat!!!

[bogwitch64.livejournal.com]

Poor little goat. What a pathetic little bleat!

[usha123.livejournal.com]

gosh, the bleating does really get to you :-(

[core-opsis.livejournal.com]

That's certainly not what I think of when I think of Western Massachusetts. We just watched Winter's Bone, and the scary part was that it was JUST like some places in the Ozarks near Byron's relatives. We had visited a sawyer who lived in a trailer on a total trash pit, who had two boys named "Boy" (or at least that's all he called them), the younger of which played on piles of refuse, and the older of which who helped him with his sawyering, which was done with a completely jerry-rigged machine.

[88greenthumb.livejournal.com]

Oh that pleading, expectant look..."take me, please..."

[calenorn.livejournal.com]

ram - shack - le ?!?!?!

(snickers)

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I do feel sorry for the little goat. :(

We used to keep goats, just as pets, the idea of having a milking goat didn't come to anything. They are very friendly creatures and they need company, preferably another goat, but sheep or cattle or ponies would do.

The problem is, how to urge the owners to do the right thing by their animal without alienating them...?

[suzan-s.livejournal.com]

That's really sad. I wish the little guy had a nice field to roam around in.

[salyey-marya.livejournal.com]

i love this post! so much unpolished LIFE!

[a-soft-world.livejournal.com]

Is that in the center of town near the Methodist church? I used to know very well the people who live there.