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Be careful about getting a goat
We once thought it might be a good idea to get a goat. Our back garden had, due to laziness on our part, reverted to English jungle and to clear it and return it to a manageable garden in which toi grow vegetables again seemed like too big a task. The garden was large by our standards, and so we thought 'let's get a goat and it can eat all this lovely greenery and keep it under control'. Bad idea. We got a female kid, feisty and voracious, with a distinct personality we grew to love. She began eating, and at first all seemed fine. We fed her vegetable scraps as well and she ate anything we gave her, even trying to eat our clothes while we weren't looking. She grew larger. The garden began to look a bit bare and as she was now fully grown and we were running out of food, we had to buy in goat food, and I would spend an hour a day gathering wild food from hedgerows. Everything we produced she ate. She ate washing from the clothes line. She killed a young tree by stripping off the bark up to the height she could reach on her hind legs, around eight feet. She had a wicked sense of humour and would run at the fence you were standing behind, launch into the air aiming at you and turning at the last second to launch off the fence inches from your face. She also learned quickly how to undo the door to the chicken run by watching us, and would frequently let them out to join her. Quite a sense of humour. So if your garden is overgrown, get a mower, a strimmer, a scythe or even a horse. Just don't get a goat unless you have at least a couple of acres. What happened to Rosie? We found someone with lots of land and three goats already, she joined them happily; there was plenty to eat, and she never looked back.
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