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[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

[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...?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That's exactly the route I'm thinking of going. If I can somehow meet them, and ask if I can visit the goat, etc., and then maybe ask them if they'd want to, say, sell it to someone with more space.

The problem is that I myself have nothing to offer, as we're not allowed to keep livestock where I live. Otherwise I **totally** would offer to take the goat myself--though it would still be lonely. Yeah, better to find a place where there are other animals about.

[core-opsis.livejournal.com]

Goats definitely need company. They're good companions for horses and dogs too.....

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Wish we could keep it at my house! I'd even build a fence. And I already get hay for the guinea pigs. There are already people breaking the rules by keeping ducks; I wish I had the metaphorical balls to break the rules and have a goat.