Goats: Part One

What can bring hoards of giddy neighborhood kids out at 9:00 at night?
Fireworks?
No..
Night games?
Nope...
How about two goats.

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Meet Capricorn.... and Io.

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Rich's two new backpacking buddies. Rich is going on a high-adventure backpacking trip to King's Peak tomorrow, and these guys are going with him. It's always been a dream of his to take along some packgoats to help lighten his load. Tonight, after a 4 hour training course, Rich tied them up, fed them, and gave them their anti-stress medicine.

They had to sleep somewhere tonight so a kind neighbor volunteered his fenced-in yard (they get spooked by dogs). Each goat can carry 80 pounds-so needless to say, Rich will be eating better than the average backpacker. Hopefully they won't get lost, or eaten by wolves, or die of one of the hundreds of other ways that they can die (they cost 600 dollars to replace!). I'm sure there will be plenty of goat stories when he gets back. Hopefully none about Rich beating down a bear so it didn't drag off his 600 dollar goat! To be continued.....