All good goats go to heaven
Posted on September 16, 2007 - Filed Under animals, goats
Today I found Big Daddy goat keeled over in the middle of the pasture. He’d been acting funny, keeping to himself, not really eating much. I saw him yesterday, off from the herd, and tried to pitch some pears out his way, but he really didn’t make any effort to get them. Today, when I didn’t see him even lurking on the outskirts, I pulled on my boots and headed out to the back pasture. I figured he might be hiding in the old collapsed goat shed, but I spotted him lying in the field. The grass is so high, I could barely see him. I thought he might be resting, and well, he was, but permanently.
He was a good goat as far goats go. He had impressive curved horns and used them impressively. He leaves behind Big Mama (although, being a thoroughly modern goat, she had moved on to Jim, now known as Big Jim), Mopsy and Topsy.
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That is the circle of life in nature. Do you think Big Daddy and the other goats in the herd knew he was near “full circle” and so all were moving on. We all have heard stories of Eskimos and other Indians who would abandon elderly, (or the elderly would leave on their own) that were at the end of their life – sounds cruel and a little barbaric in our modern protection (sometimes unnatural prolonging) of life but animals just have a way of living that is basic truth.