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06/10/11, 12:50 AM
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SUCKER tattooed across my forehead
Tonight we're cooking dinner and the doorbell rings. A rather scruffy old guy with a cigarette dangling from his mouth is at the door. He points to the cab of his old banged up pickup truck and says, "if you don't take em, I'm gonna have to go home a shoot them". Peeking over the dash are two tiny goat faces. Evidently, he got two baby goats from one of the local dairies and they are running amuck. They are BONY, potbellied, and horned... of course. They are getting into his garden and ruining it he says. They are free for me to take, or he is going to have to shoot them. Put them in the extra pen I tell my daughter. He pops them out of the truck and they are popped into their new pen. We will worm and cocci treat starting tomorrow. We HAVE the extra milk right now. They will get castrated in a few weeks. We'll keep them FAR away from our herd. They'll live good little lives and go to freezer camp in August. We gave them a LITTLE milk and a LITTLE creep feed and hay tonight. They SCARFED it, so we'd better go back out before bedtime and give a little cd antitoxin until we can get a vaccine into them. Sheesh, I am a SUCKER!
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06/10/11, 01:07 AM
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Awww - how sad!!! At least you have a place you can keep them away from your herd!
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06/10/11, 01:11 AM
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Oh wow!!!!
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06/10/11, 05:32 AM
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Good for you, I would have done the same thing. ~hugs~
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06/10/11, 06:44 AM
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Does not sound as if you are a sucker to me. Sounds as if you are a caring person. I hope that it all comes out to your advantage in the end!
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06/10/11, 07:13 AM
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Huggs. Not sucker. Loving caring rescue angel goat person.
Bless you.
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06/10/11, 07:15 AM
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Not a sucker but a softee with a good heart! At least these 2 little bucklings will be well cared for & have a good life until they go to the freezer. That old man was probly going to shoot them & throw them out for the coyote's.
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06/10/11, 09:36 AM
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Show us your teats!!
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Heck, I would have done the same thing - are you kidding?!! I'm surprised someone hasn't come knocking at my door.
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06/10/11, 10:42 AM
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We would have done the same, if we had the space.
You're not a sucker. I was just bemoaning the fact that we're about out of cabrito. 
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06/10/11, 07:51 PM
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Good on you. I have the same tattoo. My wife thinks I have an ad on Craigslist begging for others unwanteds. I can't go on a walk without a dog or a kitten following me home.
So be it....critters are better than most peoples (cept here of course).
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06/10/11, 08:00 PM
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Good for you! Makes me glad I live on top of a hill with a long driveway LOL. I would take in everything that came my way 
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06/10/11, 10:06 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Alice In TX/MO
Huggs. Not sucker. Loving caring rescue angel goat person.
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Ditto. You had me at "two tiny goat faces."
Good work
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06/10/11, 10:43 PM
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Our neighbor came over with his 3 1/2 week old Saanen/boer kid that I sold to him when a friend was looking to sell some babies and I just COULDN"T take any more bottle babies (yep, and here I am bottle feeding). That 3 1/2 week old weighs more than these little guys and their horn growth pattern puts them well over 2 months old...ick. Well, they're getting 32 oz a day of milk so maybe they'll catch up a little altho the pot bellies and crusted hair on their butts makes me think they are little cocci cauldrons.
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06/11/11, 11:50 AM
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I agree, no sucker...just big hearted.
Thankfully these little fellas will have the
life that all animals deserve..
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06/11/11, 12:50 PM
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Yepper, I would have done the same thing. I did have a lady stop by with a solitary baby chick and give it to me. They were moving. I am a sucker for baby animals too.
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06/11/11, 02:20 PM
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I would have done the same thing. Just something about those little goat faces.
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06/11/11, 06:49 PM
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Well, at 8 a.m. this morning, the same guy showed up again. He said his wife had been crying since he got rid of the babies. I told him to go take them, and politely shut the door. I have a feeling he found a BUYER and came to get them. They had two days of milk, good food, cocci meds and worming. I only wish I could have gotten cdtet shots into them before he took them back. Oh well...
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"Fair"- the other 4 letter F word." This epiphany came after almost 10 days straight at our county fair.
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06/11/11, 07:15 PM
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Hmph! I might have charged him for their care and seen if he still wanted them after that!
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06/11/11, 08:35 PM
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I would have charged him. If I let him have them back at all.
The nerve of some people.
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06/11/11, 10:33 PM
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I wouldn't have let them go back at all. If you dump an animal at my place because you say you will have to shoot it if you don't, you don't get it back.
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