Buster scary ordeal

Buster is very scared. He got 2 shots in the ass on Saturday and now he doesn't trust anybody. He also got his head cleaned and washed after he got tied to the tree. I know my mom is trying to help him. He was all bloody. He spends most of his time in his house. He doesn't feel good. mom comes to check on him but twice a day she comes with some liquid and forces it down his troat. Finally he decided to hide in the bushes.

Nasty day in a life of a goat

We had some excitement tonight, actually Buster was the one who suffered. He was attacked by a vicious dog.  The beast got hold of Buster's ear and now Buster's ear is torn off. When it happened mom was so scared and was trying to get the dog away. People came to help out with the rescue and everyone was screaming at the dog to let got. Mom then tried to take us back to our house, she was afraid we were going to be next. We are so curious, we wanted to see what was going on. Finally after 10 minutes, dad took a piece of wood and hit the dog on top of the head. The dog was knocked out. Here is a picture of Buster bandaged.

Europeen animals

Our mom was missing for 4 weeks and she finally came home the other day. We were so happy to see her. During her trip she saw many animals (Donkeys, Baudets du Poitou, Moutons d'Ouessant, etc...). This is the picture of a mini sheep that you can only find on the West Coast of France in some island near Britany.

Fire are nice and warm

At night, the branches that have no more leaves on them (thanks to us), are being burn in a fire. On that picture I am looking for some possible leaves that have gotten away.

Dinner with extra

This is the grain we like to eat every night. It is like our milk and cookie before bed time. Tonight my mom added some cold baked potatoes.

What we can do with goat hair?

The birds are using our hair to make nests. Here is an example my uncle Ron found by our house.

Avocado face

My mom has been feeding us avocado skins. The skin gives us green mouths. Here is Titan with his beautiful oily nose.

9:30pm and we are out and about

The outside light is so bright that it feels like daylight. We like to jump and sleep on our stands. Also it is Saturday night and we do not want to go to sleep.

Me, the Star

Do you like this picture of me? Who is this person in the background? Or no, she is messing up the shot! Get out of here!

I eat everything

This is me with a box in my mouth. Do you recognize the logo? This is my favorite brand of cigarettes. The smell of tobacco: "I love!". I eat anything I found. Did you know that paper is made out of trees. I love trees.

Titan and Buster are still skidish around people

This weekend, the little girl wanted to be nice to my brothers. As soon as she would come over, they would start running. They are still skidish around people. It took close to a year for them to get use to our mom.

We have a routine

Today , Monday, we spent all day working on the new scotch broom. We like to eat. When we found out mom was home, we went by the gate and waited for her to come and get us. She got us out and noticed that Titan and Buster's belly were bigger than usual. When it got dark and we were ready to go to bed, we followed our mom to the house to get her daily grains. It is recommended to feed grains to goats. We get a mix, which has protein, fat, vitamins, etc...

Clearing the yard (part 2)

Sunday: Another fun day but we had a little rain. We were outside eating some more blackberry bushes. When we came back we did not recognize the pen. Where all the dead scotch brooms were standing before, there was nothing. It was clear. My brother and I, looked around. We did not recognize the place. Even the wood board that we like to sit in the sun in the morning (sun is good for goats, they need Vitamin D. Always place the goat house with the door facing South) had moved.

Clearing the yard (part 1)

Saturday we had a fun day, hanging around my mom and all the people that came to visit. We like people and the people like us. When we came back to our pen in the evening, we discover a different pen. I could not believe it. My mom walked amongst the scotch broom and waived at me to come close. I walked toward her, where the wire used to be, there was nothing. I looked on the right, I looked on the left, nothing! I was in disbelieve. We have more room and more work to do. Earlier in the day, I played with the little girl. She is friendly. She brushed my hair, put her hand on my nose and gave me kisses. I wanted to drink was she was drinking. It tasted like strawberry juice. My mom tried to take a picture of my red mouth but I would not let her. I hate paparazzi! They get in your your face all day....

Blackberry bushes are our favorite

Look all the work we have done. This place was full of blackberry bushes but now it is almost all gone. We love the leaves and if you want them gone forever, you still have to pull the roots out. That is the way you can control it.

Remember, we need water

We need water just like everybody else. My mom make sure that we have water in the morning. When we eat leaves that are wet (we really do not like wet food) from the morning dew, we get our water but on a sunny, hot day, we need water.

I love to smoke

Uncle Ron where are your cigarettes. I know they are in one of your pockets. I can't find them. I need a smoke now!

The boy and the scary machine

We spent the day out and clearing bushes, blackberry bushes, trees, scotch broom. We were minding our own business and this machine would come by and scared us each time. It would pass by us and I would run into the bushes and hide. My mom even went into the bushes away from the scary machine.

The grass is greener on the other side

We love the neighboor's grass but not the grass in our pasture. The rabbit eat our grass. Can you see him eating our grass.

Look how tall I am!

Tonight we waited for our mom to come and get us. She put us next to the trees. We love to stretch out to reach up high in the trees, so we can eat leaves. We love leaves. Look at Buster, he is so tall.

The challenge of eating a carrot

Titan is trying to eat a carrot. The challenge with carrots is you have to have it in your mouth and eat it without dropping it. We do not like food that is dirty. Titan wants to make sure he gets all his food so he had to move his head the right way to make sure it doesn't fall.

The screaming creature

Once in awhile, me and my brothers, are eating the scotch broom by this window behind my mom's house and this screaming creature doesn't stop screaming at us at the window. I am not sure what it is. The noise doesn't bother us, we love to eat and nothing really, except the rabbits or dogs that sneak up on us, stop us from eating.

Going bald, oh no!!!

I have been scratching myself so much against that new white house and it smelly paint, that I am going bald on the top of my head. Do you see the white spot? My mom checks my head everyday.

Goats like to sniff too

This white house that we now live in smells good. It smells so good that today we rubbed ourselves against it and chewed some of the white stuff off. This morning, mom came out and said "NO! NO!", I am not sure what is screaming about. We are helping her by bringing the blue paint back. Actually we are artists, didn' t you see the picture of the branches below?

The white house! Where is Obama?

Our house is all white. We missed the blue paint. My mom also painted the stands we like to jump on. This place looks like the winter mornings. We ate burrito shells this weekend. My mom gave us the big chunk and we could not eat it. Buster put it on the ground and started biting pieces out of it. Goats do not have hands like humans do but we sure love to eat all kinds of food. Today Buster was trying to chew mom zipper.

What is that white stuff?

Dad and mom are fuzzing around our house this afternoon. Not sure what they are doing but our house doesn't look the same anymore. What happened with the blue and white paint?

Family portrait

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Finally a new roof to test

I saw some dirt traces on the new roof. Either Buster or Titan tested it already. Luckily my mom did not see it. Here it is, a new modern roof.

Too much socializing

Once in a while we get in trouble. We love to visit the goats next door, but then my mom or dad have to come and get us and if they do, then we get the chain. I do not like the chain but I am used to it and I can walk around without any trouble.

My dad today ended up getting all mudy from catching us in our friends field. See, this is the white goat and Oreo.

Our new friend, the escargot!

I call them snails but my mom calls them escargot. This morning it was raining so hard, we were in our house but the snail was out and about eating our grass.

Mom can we have a fainting goat brother?

My mom knows someone who has fainting goats. It would be fun to have another brother. Here is a funny video of a fainting goat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOf30xcDWS0

Yummy black paper!

The roof now is cover with black paper. We decided to try it out and see if it tasted good. It is so yummy, we almost took half of it off.

Silly Stuart trying to jump on the wheelbarrow

After all the wood tiles were put in the wheelbarrow, Stuart tried to jump in there. He is a very silly brother. We love him and we hate being away from him. Too bad we did not capture the picture, but here is the stuff loaded to prove it. Signed Titan & Buster

Uncle Ron is trying to climb on our roof!

Tonight, Uncle Ron was up on a step trying to get on the roof probably. Instead, he was taking the wood stuff we have been chewing on. Now, there is nothing left for us to play with.

Where is my window?

Dad asked "does each goat gets a window?". Kinda. Stuart insiste on being in the front of the house, so he has the front window. We are in the back so we get the back window, but we are all allow to pick at the large side window. Check us out! Signed Titan & Buster

Beautiful sunny weekend

We got to hang out and enjoy the sun all weekend. We got to see our friends, the goats next door. We hanged out with Uncle Tom and dad outside. They were clearing the bushes and timber by our fence. One small tree fell on my mom head, she thought I was jumping on her. She was afraid that the trees were going to fall on us so she got us out of there. By one of the tree we liked, one that we ate the bark out of, Uncle Ron put some manure on it so we would not get close to it. We do not like manure, it smells. Now that tree with the manure is home to our new friends, "The ants".

Look for the rabbit

I got startled this morning by a rabbit. My mom said that after I moved in, and cleared the bad weeds, actually the yummy stuff I eat all day, a family of rabbits moved in. They used to live under our house, but then Uncle Ron moved the house to a new location. They love to graze in our pasture but do not like to stick around for social gatherings. Now, the rabbit is in the picture, look closely. Do you know how hard it is to take a picture of a scared rabbit and a goat?

The color green is our favorite

Sorry to bother you about one more blog with rain. We hate to get wet and soak. Imagine waiting for a bus in the rain like our friend Violeta. The only good thing about living here in the rainy place is everything is green. We eat everything that's green. I have a collar that's green. Our water and grain bowl are both green. Green is everywhere. This blog is green. Sometime we get to eat food that is not green. Non green food is not our favorite. We eat fruits, potatoes (boiled only), breads (all kinds). This is Buster eating a pepperoni pizza. He flipped it over (silly boy).

Look what I can do!

My mom named me Stuart because some little boy on TV, jumped like me she said. When she saw me jump, she thought I look like Stuart. He would said, "look what I can do" and when I jump my mom says "Look what I can do". Here is the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3dpkcOPwZk

Doesn't he look like me with his big brown eyelashes. I love my name Stuart. I used to be called Odasious. Mom hated it and I did too.

So many friends!

Makayla, the girl next door, came to visit us with my mom. Titan can be anti-social, but he followed her when she was leaving. She is nice. I gave her kisses. This morning, we got to hang out with Oreo, Sienna, and the big white goat. We get to see them once in awhile and we tend to be affectionate with them, either by kissing them, rubbing against them or smelling them. We are very affectionate. We love to give and receive kisses. Titan was also playing with Sienna. In goat language, playing is head-butting. It is normal for a young goat to butt-head. My brother Sundance, used to butt-head with my mom, and she would say "I am not a goat!".

We want grains!

We got to go out last night and for awhile we were grazing the nice, fresh, springy grass. After about 30 minutes, the twins wanted their grains, and as soon as mom went inside the house, we followed her and waited at the door, just in case she would come out with our food. Since she did not come out right away, we ran to the deck because we can see her in the kitchen, and the twins were crying. Then, she reappeared in the front of the house with our food. We started running and jumping almost pushing her on the ground.

Lots of pine and lots of rain

Today we have been inside the house a lot. It has been raining and we hate the rain. We hate water on our food as well. That is why mom give us dry hay every morning and we usually get more if it is raining. We like alfalfa and timothy grass (see picture). It comes as compresed bale. My mom has to break it apart for us. Yesterday our uncle Ron, went and got us some pine branches. 

What's for dinner?

Mom came home and it was still light out. She let us out but I have to be chained so the twins do not run away. Unfortunately, they do not get it. They are suppose to eat the grass and weed all around but instead they wanted to hang out on the deck. Mom was making dinner and they could see her at the window and were asking for dinner as well. We get grains every night and that is what they wanted. While they were on the deck, dad decided to scare them off with this big noisy vehicle. The twins started running and running, going all around the house. Mom came out and said to dad "they need to eat, please stop torturing them!". The twins were so happy to see mom. No more scary, noisy machine. We finally got our grains.

Grass on my mom's head

The reason why, my mom has grass on her head is because in the morning when she gives us food, I put so much in my mouth and tend to swing my head around, the grass flies all over the place including the twins head. While mom, shake the grass out of their head, she is next to me, she gets grass all over. She said "you are such a messy eater!".

Why we love trees?

We use trees as shelter when it rains. Goats do not like rain. Just to make this blog an informative one, goats need sun exposure, make sure any shelter with a roof is facing South, and when we can't get to a shelter, a tree will do. We also love the bark on the trees, but mom gets angry if we eat the bark. She doesn't mind so much on little trees. Bark taste good and with our teeth we have no difficulty removing the bark from the trees. This morning she put more pine branches in our pasture and we often eat the bark from the branches before we eat the pine. After we are done eating pine, mom said we have nice breath and she doesn't mind the kisses. She said they are mighty fresh!

Stuart Houdini

Mom said: "he pulled another Houdini on me!". That means, Stuart got untied from his chain. Mom was calling him because she was afraid he went to the goats next door, but then she heard him calling from the deck in the back of the house. We were crying to because we hate to be separated from him and especially when we can't see him. Mom took us near the deck and went back to get the chain. Stuart followed her. When she came back to the deck area Stuart did not follow, he just stood there watching. That was funny!, so she went to get the short leach and went she came back out, she could not find Stuart again. He was back at the deck and calling her. Stuart was really funny and playing games. He wanted to be scratch all over. We are babies but he can be such a big baby too. Signed Buster & Titan.

Another stand for us

This morning, mom and the lady and the dog (dog in the picture), pushed a new perch by our house. Now we have three. Mom stepped on it and was asking me to join her. There is not enough room for 2 goats on that perch. As soon as she jumped out, Buster stepped on it and I pushed him because everything here is mine. The dog went under the fence and got shock.

Please scratch my head!

Today, my mom noticed that the top of my head was green. No, I was not celebreating St Patrick's day. The part near my horns (you can called them stubs), is always hitchy. My mom started scratching it with her big garden gloves. I love that. It feels good.

Trip to the creek

Another fun time, today was when dad on his noisy machine drove down this road. I followed mom and behind me were the twins. We walked through the woods and we stop by a river. I drank some of the water. It was cold and fresh but I love the grass that tasted so good by the water. We went back up and mom, dragged some pine branches for later. Sienna, the goat from next door came and hang out with us while we ate some more scotch broom aka Cytisus scoparius in latin. That reminds me, I used to have a latin name. More on that later....

The three musketeers!

I love saturdays. Mom is usually home and we do a ton of fun stuff. She opens the gate in the morning and has we all charge up the hill, she calls us the 3 musketeers. Then we turn into bums, that is something else she calls us when we just walk around sniffing grass and dirt on the ground trying to identify the best food. This morning, it seems that we found a lot of pine and that stuff smelled the best today, nice and fresh and on the ground from the last storm.

I am no longer a packing goat

I wanted to say, I am not packing anymore. I retired few years ago from packing. Finally, I settle here and I am enjoying life in doing nothing. My mom doesn't get it. She put Maddy on my back when she was 3 months old (see picture) and that was fine, Maddy was light as a feather, but last weekend, I simply REFUSED for Maddy who is much heavier now, to ride on my back. NO MORE PACKING, GOT IT!