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Oh my Goat!
DoveLewis These cute goats were found wandering the streets of Multnomah County last night and were brought to DoveLewis.

We are experiencing an urban goat explosion here lately (chickens are so last year). I thought all of you would like to know, since we are setting the trend for you from out here.
A mob of them have recently been spotted on SE Belmont Street, taming an open field. Personal goat-ownership is on the rise.

I still don't know where these two came from!
I think goats might make good pets, but their eyes are sorta creepy and they get into *everything*. I also don't have anything I need them to control, but renting out goats seems like a good idea.

I wouldn't mind a goat as a pet. They're wicked smart.

I had a friend whose family kept baby sheeplets and goats, and they roamed the big garden, keeping the grass at bay. Many of the rooms in the house had little goat and lamb skins hanging in them. :unsure:

That tourist recently got killed by a wild goat. Don't piss them off.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :wub: (Wouldn't be saying that if it lived with me though I've had my fill of goats and their eating habits!)

I love curried goat....and goat soup....

Isn't one of the forms of Satan a goat? :scaredhair:

Very Halloweenish Mo. :scaredhair: :scaredhair: :scaredhair:

We need a new poll.

Poll: I don't believe in goats.

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Originally Posted by meauxna (Post 8946297)

I also don't have anything I need them to control

If you did have something that you needed them to control and you also had goats then you wouldn't have it for very long ... :sneaky:

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Originally Posted by md95065 (Post 8946366)

If you did have something that you needed them to control and you also had goats then you wouldn't have it for very long ... :sneaky:

Well... that's the point. :blink:
People like to keep them because they eat all the undesirables (blackberrys). But I am still paying for plants in my yard.

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Originally Posted by meauxna (Post 8946439)

Well... that's the point. :blink:
People like to keep them because they eat all the undesirables (blackberrys). But I am still paying for plants in my yard.

Plus all the washing, the contents of your bins, plastic, metal, soil, grass etc, etc, on the plus side they make ace cheese though!:thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by traceym (Post 8946452)

Plus all the washing, the contents of your bins, plastic, metal, soil, grass etc, etc, on the plus side they make ace cheese though!:thumbsup:

mmmm, goat cheese....

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Originally Posted by meauxna (Post 8946480)

mmmm, goat cheese....

Mmmmm, with homemade bread!!!

My neice used to have 2 little dwarf goats (is that the PC terms for them? LOL) They were sooo cute, but they just got to be too much of a pest and she had to give them away.

In before someone claims that British goats are ever so much better than American...

I cant stop singing this now.......
Mister Patrick McGinty, an Irishman of note,
Came into a fortune, so bought himself a goat.
Said he, "Sure, of goat's milk I mean to have my fill!"
But when he got his Nanny home, he found it was a Bill.

And now all the ladies who live in Killaloo
Are all wearing bustles like their mothers used to do.
They each wear a bolster beneath the petticoat,
And leave the rest to Providence and Paddy McGinty's goat!

Missis Burke to her daughter said, "Listen, Mary Jane, .
Now who was the man you were cuddling in the lane?
He'd long wiry whiskers all hanging from his chin."
"Twas only Pat McGinty's goat, " she answer'd with a grin.

Then she went away from the village in disgrace,
She came back with powder and paint upon her face.
She'd rings on her fingers, and she wore a sable coat,
You bet your life they never came from Paddy McGinty's goat.

Little Norah McCarthy the knot was going to tie,
She washed all her trousseau and hung it out to dry.
Then up came the goat and he saw the bits of white:
He chewed up all her falderals, and on her wedding night:

"Oh turn out the gas quick!" she shouted out to Pat,
For though l'm your bride, sure l'm not worth looking at.
I'd got two of ev'rything, I told you when I wrote,
But now I've one of nothing, all thro' Paddy McGinty's goat.'

Mickey Riley he went to the races t'other day.
He won twenty dollars and shouted, "Hip Hooray!!"
He held up the note, shouting "Look what I've got!"
The goat came up and grabbed at it and swallowed all the lot.

"He's eaten my banknote," said Mickey, with the hump.
They ran for the doctor, he brought a stomach pump.
He pumped and he pumped for that twenty dollar note,
But all he got was ninepence out of Paddy McGinty's goat.

Now old Paddy's Goat had a wonderous appetite,
and one day for breakfast he ate some dynamite.
A whole box of matches he swallowed all serene
and then he went and gobbled up a quart of paraffin.

He sat by the fireside, he didn't give a hang,
swallowed a spark and exploded and exploded with a bang.
SO if you go to heaven you can bet a dollar note....
that the Angel with the whiskers on is Paddy McGinty's Goat.

The End

I love goat's cheese...yummm.
Loads of people around where we live keep goats...they can be very comical, especially the kids