BOB GETS A NEW HOME and DRACO GETS THINNER!

Bob, a goat who has captured our hearts and frustrated us at the same time, has been moved to his new home this past week.

He is now residing at my sisters home.  If you have not read about Bob, read his stories here ...

Bob in the beginning

Bob on the farm 

Bob 

So Bob was to become food or he had to go to someones home.  Bob just could not become food, he has too big of a personality....a frustrating one, but a personality never the less!  I would often come home and bob was out...he would cry, run towards the fence where the other goats were, crying as if saying: help me farmers wife, I am outside the fence and dont know how to get back in!  Once when I got home, he was waiting by the driveway-his usual spot to wait for us when he wanted put back into the barn yard, I had a lot of stuff to carry in and couldn't take him to the barnyard right then, so went to the back door, with all my packages and Bob in tow, and knocked on the door, Scott opened the door and in walked
Bob.  I said-you have a visitor...

We were not really sure where Bob was getting out of the fence at, no other sheep or goats were getting out, (thankfully). One day Scott and I looked out of the front window and saw
Bob-out front in the yard, and I said, I will go 'herd' him into the pasture...but I am using the riding lawn mower.  Scott just snickered.  I got the lawn mower, with a wagon still hooked up onto it, so no quick turns, but away I went.  Out to the front -down the driveway, around the front yard, towards Bob.  Bob took one look at the lawnmower coming towards him and cried and ran!  So around the next corner of the fence, down the lane we went towards the back woods.  Bob would cry out, stop and look at me and then cry and run a bit more, stop and look cry out and run some more, stop and look (yes, Bob I am still in pursuit) so that is the way it went.  Eventually Bob out ran the lawnmower,  (if I did not have a wagon behind me I would have caught him I am sure) he went around the back corner of the fence by the woods and ran to his 'door in the fence' and went into the pasture.  Scott was out side up by the house and saw-which was good, now we knew where he was getting out!  That area got fixed, but Bob still got out.  Must be a second door somewhere in the fence. 

So bob was going to my sisters house...he will eat and clean the fence row up, and bug (cough) I mean-- allow others to enjoy his company.

Bob in the truck before we leave for his new home

Bob -we  have arrived, and he is a little stressed (and yes he is tied so he did not stand up then fall and break any legs)

Bob in his new home

Bob in his new home

The other thing we had to get done this week (among many other things) is brush out our dog-Draco.  Draco has enough fur that in the winter he can lay out in the snow, with snow falling on him and the snow does not melt.  This is because he has such thick fur.....so we brushed him out, and this is just some of the fur (that fuzzy stuff at the base of the fur) that come out...I only worked for about an hour on this, but to totally groom him would take about 6-8 hours.  He gets tired of the brushing actually....

the photo does not show all the fur, there is a lot more all over!