The Fainting Goats

Back in 2005 while watching Tuckerville I saw the most amazing animals EVER, fainting goats.  By the way Tuckerville was a reality show about country music star Tanya Tucker and her life on the farm with her kids.  They were crazy, but in a good way of course.

Anyway back to the fainting goats...if you can succeed in startling/scaring them their muscles will freeze up for about 10-30 seconds causing them to collapse on their sides.  It was hysterical watching them on tv and I wanted to see one so bad!

Today my dream came true and I was invited by a friend for a visit w/the goats.  I've only been inviting myself to the "farm" for a visit for the past year and I may have finally wore her down. As we walked towards the pen I lost any desire to see them freeze up and fall over sideways, I couldn't do it, couldn't scare them, didn't even want to.  So I whipped out my bag of baby carrots and had a grand time feeding, rather than frightening the goats. 

Guess somethings are best to enjoy on television.

If you want to see and learn more about fainting goats visit http://animal.discovery.com/videos/weird-true-freaky-fainting-goats.html I guarantee you will laugh!