Dances with Goats

I found this title appropriate only because "Dances with Wolves" is on the list of movies that my husband will watch over and over again. It was on some random channel yesterday afternoon, and although it was almost over when he found it, he watched the ending for the 18 billionth time.

But about the goats....my goats hate dancing. It freaks them out. Bruce discovered this fact when he came into the fenced yard with his mp3 player on and broke out into a little jig right there as the goats were coming up to see if he had any treats for them. The dancing scared them so bad that they spazzed out and started running sideways. If they were Australian fainting goats, they would have fallen out for sure. So Bruce reported to me later that they seriously hated dancing and of course we had to go test the theory out again.

We walked out into the yard, and pretended to just stand around and chat...long enough that the goats were calmly walking around us. And then we broke out in a dance. Sure enough, it scared the hell out of them and they scattered away running like their lives depended on it. Yeah, it sounds meaner than it was intended to be.
Its actually quite funny to see. And they get over it pretty quickly. They recover and come back to see us. They don't go hide and cower for any length of time.

But of course when Stephen came over, he wanted to test it out again. So, yeah, we did it. And the goats freaked out again. They just don't appreciate the art of dancing at ALL. Or maybe we are just not doing it right....HA! I'm guessing that its a really good thing that our backyard is surrounded by acres of trees as a buffer so that neighbors or passersby might accidentally witness this weird dancing ritual that we have going on out there. Its so fun that its practically impossible to resist breaking out in dance with those goats. And after they get over the initial shock of our dancing, the goats get really wild and playful. They have some fun with it too, its not just all "mean-spirited, let's torture the goats" stuff. They run and play and headbutt each other. Goats frolic in ways that most other animals just can't. So, come on over and we can all go outside and dance with the goats!