Goat cafe and crazy goat

HERE is some crazy article on a Tokyo goat café. Yeah, I guess they decided that cat cafés are boring, so, now they have goats. You can rent the goats to walk them or you can just sit inside and have coffee with penned goats. It's stupid, but, I guess if you live in a city, it would be fun. I have my own version here. The local junk yard keeps goats to trim between the junked cars. They don't do a very good job, since goats eat what they want and he feeds them good, but, they guy kept them because everyone likes them. I like to take the kid for a short walk and we go down to the junkyard and play with the goats. I've always loved goats. I've had quite a few of them. They make great pets. Somewhere on there someone mentioned a Brazilian prison goat that attacks people. Crazy. So, I went and found the vids. HERE's one. Poor animal looks half sheep to me. It made me laugh out loud though. Visitors to the prison seem to expect the 'attack' and the goat obliges. I don't think she's actually very angry, but, she does manage to lay one lady out. Pretty funny stuff. You can also see how big they can get.

If you like odd pets and have a fenced yard, you should get a goat. They're funny, not mean, easy to take care of, don't have many medical problems, live a long time and they can't really hurt you. I chose that pic because it shows how the horns grow. When they butt you, and they will, the horns are growing backwards, so they can't impale you like a bull. They hit you with their hard head and the flat lower part of the horns. You can hit, push or kick them back in the same spot and they like it. Their whole head is like a bone helmet. It's how they play. Kids (human ones) and goats always had a good time at my house. They'd provoke each other, chase, play hide and seek, butt each other.

If you get a pet goat, be sure and get a nanny, not a billy, unless you want to breed them. Billy goats pee on themselves and stink to high heaven. Nanny's pee out the back, like a female dog, so they're clean. That café said they feed their goats special pellets so their poo doesn't stink. Goats are herbivores, their poo doesn't stink anyway. The poo is great for gardens because it's not hot. They have weird poop. They poop little piles of marble sized poo balls. It's easy to sweep up with a broom and dustpan and you can dump it directly on plants like mulch.  Don't expect them to mow your yard though. They won't unless they're starved, which is mean and then you don't deserve a goat.

Here's a cool fact. Goats only have bottom teeth for grazing. They have no top teeth so they can't really bite. They know that, so they don't bite anyway. That story about them eating tin cans is a myth. They don't eat stuff like that, they just chew things. You have to give them lots of chew toys to gnaw on. I think they're pretty smart too. I suspect they're almost as smart as most dogs. My dog, for sure. But, then Niki won't win any IQ awards. But, he's still loveable. So are goats.