[Closed] Goats!

Goats are cool, Fainting goats are even cooler

Don't try to understand the goats, they operate on a higher level than humans.

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LOL, that's so bizarre, there's no other animal quite like them. so... They scream like men, they faint at random with their legs in the air, they have weird pupils like the devil....

Goats balancing on a sheet of metal.

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So, goat-based story for you.

My girlfriend lives in rural Mississippi, middle of nowhere. For a while, her daughter had a horse. Horses don't like being alone, so she got goats to keep the horse company. She also has a massive mastiff. Mastiffs don't like goats. Goats don't like mastiffs. The goats spend their time taunting the mastiff, strutting about on the other side of the fence, daring the mastiff to have a go at them. This goes on and on.

Eventually, mastiff learns to sit still and quiet near the fence, doesn't react to the goat. Goat gets closer and closer to the fence, trying to get a rise out of the mastiff. Finally, the mastiff strikes. The goat has gotten too close to the fence, and when the mastiff lunges it is able to get the goat's face through the fence, shatters its jaw and tears most of its face off. She has to let her pistol off to startle the mastiff into releasing its grip. Goat is screwed, face hanging off, bleeding and dribbling. Clearly a goner.

She takes the kids to school, comes back, catches the mutilated goat, ties it up. Shoots it in the head with her pistol. The goat takes a hollow-point 9mm Luger round to the head, sprays blood and brains over her, screams like a man and sets off at a run across the paddock. She chases it down, gets hold of it again, ties it down again, shoots it again. This time the stubborn git finally drops.

Next problem, she can't lift a dead goat, she weighs 50kgs. So she turns up at her nearest neighbour's place, covered in goat brains and blood-spatter, pistol in waistband, and asks him for help. He brings his 4-wheeler round, loads the almost-headless corpse of the goat on the back and takes it up the road to give it to a poor family to eat.

She has forgotten where she told the kids the goat had gone, so the subject can never be mentioned again.

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Was I the only one expecting the zombie goat to rise up and attack the neighbour?

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😯 could she not have got a sheep or something if she was aware of the seething hatred between goats and mastiffs. I wonder what dark deed in the past caused this inter-species hatred.

I'll just leave this here

fainting goats are cool, saw them in real life in California. However these were low grade fainting goats and didn't faint under usual circumstances, only really scary shit (I'd have told them that mastiff story for sure). And as the owner didn't like people terrifying his livestock, basically they didn't faint the whole time we were watching. Actually, now I type that they might just have been goats?

But fainting goats were bred to do that to protect sheep. So that when a wolf came, the sheep would all run away while the goat went rigid and fell over and got eaten instead. And that's where a scapegoat comes from, pointless goat fact fans.

Fake news! ^^. Scapegoat comes from Huddersfield......

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Goat Simulator FTW 😀

Goats are a pain in the hoop, they're renowned escapeologists and will destroy all your apple trees!!

Goats are ace - FACT.

These are the wild Goats in The Valley of the Rocks - near Lynton, North Devon...

A friend in Ireland has goats, they are quite intelligent animals but a bit odd, hersqueue up at 18.00 hrs to be let into their house for the night. Good for keeping nettles down.
The big fair down that way is an long established three dayer Puck Fair a wild goat is caught proclaimed as King Puck and kept on a raised platform for three days and nights

Goats are crazy fools!

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and they grow on trees!
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Mastiffs beware....

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They're just like big kids.

And that's where a scapegoat comes from, pointless goat fact fans.

So it wasn't about throwing people out of a society to try and prevent a disaster?

I've always wanted one as a pet. Might try and get my son in to them so we can double up guilt tripping mum in to saying we can get one 😈

I had a pet Toggenburg called Heidi when I was a kid... THE most stubborn animal you could ever wish to meet.

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I had to take it from its stable every morning and lead it down to the field where it spent the days tethered to a 40ft rope creating an early form of mown crop circle.

The only way to get a goat to go anywhere on a lead rope is to try and pull it in the opposite direction. Hateful animals.

I still have this book that I like to leave lying around when we have visitors...

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councilof10 - Member
I had a pet Toggenburg called Heidi when I was a kid

Are you a grown up, adult goat these days? 😆

THE most stubborn animal you could ever wish to meet.

That's how my wife describes me 🙂

Used to go out on the feral goat counts up in the Kielder/cheviot ridge area - amazing herds, with big old smelly Billies sporting some amazing heads of horn. Beautiful creatures

Goats are brilliant. Much cooler than stupid sheep.

An enlightening opinion piece. By A Goat.

http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/hey-you-got-something-to-eat-11163

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It's when they find religion that things get weird

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