So . . . I was expecting to be writing about recent storms, but something got in the way AGAIN - goats AGAIN!
This is Stanley...
I have spent the past week chasing a lone Stanley off our land. I thought it strange that he wasn't with the rest of the herd. We rarely see a solitary goat.
Then today I spent an unsuccessful hour trying hard to keep him on our land.
Why?
I was walking along the lane when I spotted a familiar sight in our garden - Stanley, who has clearly replaced Gladys, who, reading between the lines, is probably now somebody's Sunday lunch! I passed the neighbours adjoining field, and heard a strange noise which came from what appeared to be a brown rabbit cowering near the fence. Thinking 'I didn't know rabbits made that noise', I looked again and realised it wasn't a rabbit but a tiny baby goat. It was separated from Stanley by our newly erected goat/sheep/rabbit proof fence.
Assuming they were mother and baby, would explain why a lone Stanley kept reappearing in our garden - to get to her baby. But if that was the case, why did she go into the garden when the route through our field is clearly easier.
Anyhow, along with a neighbour, I tried to get the two reunited. My neighbour picked up the kid and put it over the small fence leading to our field, meanwhile, I tried to chase Stanley from our garden towards the bottom of the field where the baby kid was calling out. Daft Stanley ran up the field, so I had to retrace my steps & climb various paths & steps through the garden to beat her to the top of the field to stop her escaping onto the farmer's land. She then diverted and ran along our drive. I made a mad dash around the house to get to the gate first to send her back into the garden. Too late! She escaped by jumping the fence and ran up the lane in the wrong direction. To cut a longer story shorter, we located her and carried baby kid to her. But she kept running away from us. So we placed kid near a hedge and hid at a distance until Mum found baby and we left the two reunited.
At the risk of sounding like Call the Midwife, Baby seemed very weak. I hope it's ok.
Next blog - The storms . . . maybe?
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