[TheForge] The hard cider is good... OT:

[Jerry Frost]

You couldn't poll a goat his age but there is surgical dehorning. Regardless 
they're heads are more than thick and hard enough to break your back. Still, 
no horns and they won't hook your leg and hamstring you.

Mountain lions have been hunting goats a LOT more dangerous than the 
domestic variety for millenia, that's why we humans partnered with dogs 
maybe as far back as a quarter million years ago. A couple Great Pyreneese 
will take care of any predators that stray onto the spread, best of all they 
are affectionate in the extreme unless they don't trust you. If a Pyr 
decides something is a threat to his/er charges the great big happy 
marshmallow just becomes death incarnate, no more threat.

If our dogs don't trust you we don't.

Jer
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From: "Andrew Vida" <osan at netlabs.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] The hard cider is good... OT:


>
>
> Bruce Freeman wrote:
>> Andy -
>>
>> Why don't you just TRIM HIS HORNS!  Polling has long been done in cattle.
>> You don't even need to go to that extreme.  You can round the end or even
>> fit it with a screw-on metal ball.  He'd still be able to butt, but not 
>> to
>> impale.
>
> You can go only so far with goats.  Too far and they bleed to death
> before your eyes.  Besides, we have all manner of predators up here
> including mountain lion (a neighbor shot one hisownself right in these
> here hills) and I won't have anyone unarmed.  All I have to do is steer
> clear until season is over and he will calm himself.
>>
>> Meanwhile (Mark Williams - are you listening?) I think I'll let Andy 
>> visit
>> me and not visit him.  I'm not sure I've ever noticed Andy's 
>> "boundaries."
>> I think we can expect Bibi to be cooking up a little caprine stew anytime
>> now.
>
>
> Leave Bibi out of it.  Eediot.