Goats

Cedar and the 9-year-old girl EL

Pet goat seized by police under court order, barbecued and eaten (the story behind this)

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There is quite an involved but interesting story behind the headline but essentially, a nine-year-old girl (‘EL’) took her a goat called ‘Cedar’ to the Shasta County District Fair (‘Fair’) under what is called a 4-H program where children raise and then sell their animals for slaughter. Although Cedar was taken to the Fair for …

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I'm smarter than them

Less herd-dependent individual animals are more intelligent and innovative

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For me, this is a scientific study which has resulted in a common-sense conclusion but it deserves to be stated. Scientists at the universities of Barcelona and Leipzig and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany came to the conclusion that the more independent and less herd-dependent an individual animal is the more …

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Baby goat cuddling aka goat yoga is animal exploitation

Baby goat petting sessions ‘goat yoga’ are an exploitation of animals

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PETA have referred to goat petting as “goat yoga”. When they coined that phrase, they were referring to an Australian petting zoo which provided goat yoga sessions and which was facing 10 animal cruelty charges due to poor husbandry. The PETA report was published on April 16, 2018 on their website. On this occasion in …

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Goats love to lick this woman. Is it for the salt or because of their affection for her?

Do goats lick their human caretaker out of affection or for the salt in their sweat?

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The words accompanying this video are that the goats are licking this woman out of affection. I have no doubt, by the way, that the goats have a lot of affection for this woman. I have a strong sense that she is a good person and is very tender towards her goats. However, research quickly …

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