Pygmy Goats

[alach]

Can't get these pictures working that would explain it all.
I live in a crappy little place and decided that I might as well make the best of it by getting something that I could never had in say.. Vancouver. So its a goat.
I mean we have had so many random animals come in this yard, hedgehogs, wild goats, wild chickens, polecats, turtles, frogs, storks (seriously) and these monsters,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gryllotalpa_gryllotalpa a pygmy goat made sense.
And as adam's link up top showed, they are supposed to be a fairly easy going pet.

who the hell keeps a goat as a pet?

why didn't you go for a pet cow?

or no wait.. what you truly need is a pet elephant, or a t-rex

I would for sure if they made those in pygmy sizes.

Its getting late. I will post tomorrow if/when I can get her out.

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you can always buy a toy t-rex

[MerinPally]

OP shoulda got a giant snail. Some other links underneath, I don't want to link 4 gifs.




http://i.imgur.com/J7hRLTg.gif
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[Lenonis]

OP shoulda got a giant snail.

People have some pretty wacky ideas of what makes a pet.

Like my friend who has a "pet" tarantula and a "pet" scorpion.

Those are NOT pets. You aren't going to be petting your scorpion.

...

that sounds dirty.

[MerinPally]

Yeah but imagine how squishy a giant snail is. I'd poke it (not with my penis).

[MerinPally]

No idea, am no snail expert or even owner.

[Lenonis]

Do you have to wash your hands before you touch it? I imagine the salts in sweat would kill the thing.

I don't think your hands have enough of a residual salt content to harm a snail. In order to get the reverse osmosis effect you'd need a fairly concentrated level of saline.

[Lenonis]

Ahh, good to know... not that I would ever knowingly touch a snail.

I would definitely recommend washing your hands after.

And for the record they don't taste all that great either.

[Bakis]

Need a whole fleet of goats.

With pirate hats <3

[Nathiest]

I WANT TO RAISE AND SALE Pygmy Goats!!!

[Reeve]

You should get your goat(s) one of these:



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I've eaten escargot at a very expensive french restaurant in San Fran, it was actually pretty good. If you like garlic and the texture of oysters/clams, which I do :P

I eat it a few times a year whenever a coworker of mine comes to town.

[Deleted]

Rats make better pets, they will even share your dinner.

[Deleted]

Except they cannot control their bowel movements or pee... so there is that to think about as well.

You are thinking of mice, Rats are more than capable of holding it in, infact I once had a rat that would only shit on my head.

[MerinPally]

Yeah but if you die alone cats will eat your decomposing body.

What can we learn from this?

If you murder someone, starve your cat and lock the 2 in a room. There will only be 1 outcome. Saves having to buy some sulphuric acid or go out under the cover of dark, or throw the body over the fence into next doors garden. Pigs achieve the same and even eat the bones, you can also recreate The Good Life for added effect and for atonement - as long as you don't make your neighbour go full Margo Leadbetter because we don't need more of those people in society.

[Deleted]

Oh... hmmm... sorry, I thought it was rats :/


Uh, was that a good thing that he did that on your head? LOL

Squirrel was a unique rat, I loved him so much that I pissed the bed when he died.

[Deleted]

That's pretty cute... ever since I've seen Willard, I've wanted to get a rat... but I have cat's not sure how that would work.

I have a cat that takes bats mid flight, a Jack Russel and a Doberman, the rats rules the roost though.

[Crissi]

aww, those rats are adorable.
and yeah., multiple goats will always be better.

[Reeve]

I've only ever ate it that one time. For $40 for the plate. I fear eating at a cheaper place, after watching the Kitchen Nightmare shows. Who knows how long they have had it frozen, and how popular it is. This place sells it daily.

I think the plate I buy is around $10. It's quite good.

[Gheld]

Interesting, a while back, I had the same thought, a lot of our "mainstay" pets are apex predators in their native environments (dogs (wolves) and cats).

It seems we have a better rapport with them, then say birds...

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Eww... thats too slimy, plus, killer cone snails scare me.

Well dogs are a designer GMO species bred specifically to serve roles in human society. And they only require food, water and minimal creature comforts.

Cats hunt insects and rodents by nature. So when humans became grain farmers and attracted a lot of said vermin cats just kind of wandered into our lives and now we have a symbiotic relationship with them. Even if they no longer actually eat the mice the mice have evolved to give cats a wide berth.

Spiders... moths... mice... rarely a problem when you have cats.

[alach]

Ok I used imgur.
http://imgur.com/OkKFa7C,JBEPksB#1

And neighbor cat example..
http://imgur.com/OkKFa7C,JBEPksB#0