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![]() Clover Hill Farm’s main work is horses, but it moonlights as an inn and a beagle paradise. Keep reading Beagletown in the Berkshires ![]() The forest service is kicking grazing sheep out of Idaho’s Payette National Forest because they give bighorns pneumonia. Ranchers don’t buy it. It’s like the reverse of the Yellowstone Buffalo brucellosis drama. Keep reading Bighorn Sheep over Grazing Sheep ![]() Mountain Goats–officially deemed an invasive, are controversial in Yellowstone–though everyone agrees they’re fun to see. You can find them near Mammoth. Keep reading Yellowstone Mountain Goats: Officially Unwelcome, Unofficially Pretty Neat ![]() A sweet sorta-rescue played out on Facebook this week: Kenny, a Florida goat spared from the butcher himself, reached out to save a Colorado goat in need. It all started as a joke, says Karen Matyjasik, who raises goats in Central Florida. But next Thursday a baby goat with nowhere to go will fly cross-country to start a new life, all thanks to Kenny’s Facebook fans. Karen says Kenny, a boer goat, was her son’s FFA project last fall, but was so charismatic her friend Mary Ann got all attached. Mary Ann started a facebook page called Kenny the Social Climbing Goat, reasoning that celebrities don’t get slaughtered. When FFA ended, they tutored him in wagon-pulling so he’d have another job. He collected admirers, like Dillie the Deer. He would shamelessly ask for fans: “There is a STUFFED BEAR out there with 1012 friends . What am I Chopped Liver?” Then another friend and goat herder wrote about trying to find homes for her aging father’s goats, in particular a baby with no mother. “This one showed up with no momma started sucking a little off this one, a little off this one,” but no mother goat claimed her, Karen says. Mary Ann and Karen, in the voice of Kenny, started pining for the goat they called Orphan Annie. She got Kenny to pose for a picture in front of the computer by sprinkling it with his favorite treat, Lucky Charms. “As a joke we said she could come and live Keep reading Kenny the Facebook Goat Rescues Goat Orphan Across the Country |
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