SCIENCE & OPINION: This is a worrying development for conservationists and I would argue for anybody living on the planet. 😢 There are various signs of global warming like the many more hottest days in history (on average, globally) and the hottest July ever last …
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 …
I see the devil in this horned (male) goat and I normally love goats. It is the way he is behaving, smoking weed or something. It is clearly a drug of some sort. His behaviour is disturbing. He judders at one stage as he inhales …
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 …
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 …
As I recently wrote a post about a woman breastfeeding a cat on an aeroplane, I inadvertently bumped into this video so I thought I might discuss it as well. I am not obsessed with breastfeeding! It is just the way stories evolve when you …
NEWS AND COMMENT: A Karachi farmer, Muhammad Hassan Narejo, claims that his goat, Simba, has the world’s longest ears at 46 cm (18.11 inches) each ear. This is an informal world record to the best of my knowledge because Guinness World Records does not, it …
A brilliant example of the sentience of animals and how they form interspecies friendships. Humans should be cognisant of this aspect of the animal world. It is very beautiful. The goat did a great job. When I see this, I think of the abuse meted …
TEWSKBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, USA – NEWS AND COMMENT: The words in the title are those of Vilmaria Maldonado who treats three six-month-old goats as pets on the Oliveira Farm. The problem is they were allegedly imported into the state of Massachusetts without an interstate Certificate of …
