Yeah, goats will climb on ANYTHING... A local artist keeps goats and I went to his home to interview him and take some pictures one time and they were climbing all over hay bales, outside structures, other animals, each other -- you name it! HOWEVER, the one redeeming quality about goats if you're trying to avoid them is that you can SMELL THEM LONG BEFORE YOU SEE THEM! Wheeeeyeeeee!!! :) Great pics, Mary and Sheepco... and FTM, yeah, he's a leaper, all right... can go higher than that, too... He's also the only dog I've ever seen that actually watches TV... I mean, he recognizes the difference between people and animals on TV, and which animals they are... Of course any time a dog barks or a cat meows, he's automatically over there standing on two legs at the base of the TV, looking and barking, or up on the day-bed that ends at eye-level to the TV, watching... but if he's looking that direction and an animal comes on even if it's NOT making any sound, most times he'll notice it and go running and jump up and bark at it... He also does it if there's anything loud on TV -- people yelling, or even cars honking their horns, sometimes... The funniest is when we're watching re-runs of America's Funniest Videos after supper on WGN, which have lots of animal videos in them... to see him up there barking and prancing at the animals doing THEIR neat stuff on TV... And I'm sitting at the kitchen table... most recently with my camcorder beside me... Got a little video tonight, in fact... I'm waiting until I get JUST the right clip and I'm gonna submit it to them... I think a video of a dog reacting to one of the videos they're showing might just have a shot, if he's being cute or funny enough. Oh, he also barks if someone in the house yells. I think the rule is "Nobody can be louder than Tater Tot!" :) Jeff

That is just adorable! Must be training therapy dogs at that school. Cooper and Bailey are great at taking balls off the tree but not so much putting them on! LOL

Reguardless of what your cat does or does not want I believe that it is irresponsible to have your cat become an outdoor cat or "keep" a stray cat. Vaccines can fail and your animal can be exposed to a number of bacteria or infections such as rabies. The comment that cats can't cause damage is false cats are one of the largest carriers of the rabies vaccine and become hosts to nasty viruses that can be fatal to humans. My two little girls, 4 & 5 at the time, each had to undergo the 7 shots rabies vaccine as a result of outdoor cats. That is a horrific experience for anyone to go through especially little kids that don't understand. The exposure happened in our own back yard because a neighbor didn't see a reason to "force" her cats to stay inside. The cats that were exposed died a horrific painful death due to rabies because of the negligence of their owners. Neighbors that are forced to deal with roaming pets of another eventually reach their breaking point.

Lydia, I just noticed that one card but will check out the Avanti line. Thanks. (I ordered Peter Pauper cards, but they haven't come yet.) This post was edited by socks12345 on Sat, Dec 7, 13 at 10:42