Goat Rescue at the Y

I will never look at those screaming goat videos in the same way again!  If you haven't seen any of the latest YouTube videos of music videos with goat interludes...well, you're not really missing a whole lot.  But they are everywhere!  I have seen several versions all the way from Taylor Swift to old ladies working out.  For some reason screaming goats are the latest funny.

On Monday evening, Britt and I met up to walk the greenway at the Y.  After putting Brock in the nursery, we headed out to walk.  The greenway backs up to several homes, some of which are little farms.  As we're passing one farm in particular, we can hear the sound of a goat screaming - like we've heard on so many videos.  Definitely a funny noise (and we totally laughed), but we decided to take a closer look.  Turns out the goat was screaming for a reason!  It was a baby goat that had gotten his head stuck in the fence.

We decided we had to do something.  The owners weren't home, neither were their neighbors.  We couldn't just leave him like that, so we worked for 30 minutes trying to get him free.  We tried everything from trying to entice him to move back, manipulating the fence, and trying to just push his head back.  Nothing worked.  Finally, Britt took my extra shirt, wrapped it around his snout and used all of his strength to push him back, while I worked to get his horns to fit back through.  It worked!

We weren't sure how long he'd been stuck that way, but the mama goat was visible nursing him and possibly others.  That was the main reason that we felt we had to get him free, we knew he must be hungry.  As soon a we got him back through, he went straight to his mother and began to nurse.  Whew, that definitely made us feel good.

It's definitely a funny story, but I was really surprised and proud of Britt for taking such a interest in getting the goat out of the fence.  He was determined to get him out and he finally did.  Never a dull moment :)

PS: the picture above is NOT the goat we helped, but a goat at the petting zoo that had a keen interest in Brock.  That picture still cracks us up!