Re: Chinwaggers
Well what a flipping disater this afternoon was ...... ;0(
The goats arrive I put them on collar and leads and take them to the field tie them to a tree and go back to house to deal with woman and make her a cuppa ... off she goes 2 goats grazing peacfully.....
I go back to take the leads off before they chew through them and change it for the light chain which is much longer and will give them more freedom ... by this time they have got over the truma of being driven 30km with there feet tyed together and have woken up.... as I went towards them they went besurk flying around like to spitfires tyed to a tree. I grab one and get her tyed onto the chain and let her goshe calms down alittle , the next one is bigger and stronger but finally change over onto the chain... only she snaps the link in her struggle for fredom and runs off like a bat out of hell... I run after her through the village around the lake up and down lanes across fields over a very muddy stream and finally into the forrest where I lost sight of her .... 4 hours later I trudge home goatless... I feel sick to my stomach poor little creature must be terrified....
I get home to find the other has smacked its head some how and is bleeding ... so rushed off for warm water and a towel ... dosnt look as bad as all the blood it gave out... spent hours just holding and stroking her and finally lifted her onto the straw bed to sleep as it got dark .... Just been out to take dogs for a pee and she is so quiet , I didnt want to go to close and set her off again but I hope she is alright .....So much for the woman telling me they had been well handled ...they were totally terrified of me...
So now Im going to have to get another for my neighbour . I feel so bad.
Still the one I have is very cute fawn in colour short and tubby and I think after the day I have had Im going to call her Trouble ....Its some thing I sat to friends when they arrive Hello trouble..... and I think it suits her !!!! I shall resume the hunt tomorrow for the other but no chance rreally of finding or catching it I dont think. ;0( Im really sad for her