What did you do today?

[Nanno]

Today I rearranged my goat pens. Yesterday morning I came outside to find Finn hobnobbing on the girls' side. Jezebel had come into heat and was teasing him through the fence so he decided to pop on through and make a date of it. The netting squares were all stretched apart where he'd gone through. I put him back and fixed the net, but I didn't have time to move pens yesterday. This morning Finn stayed put (perhaps the electric shock taught him to mind his own business), but Snickers thought he'd copy Finn's little stunt. He wrecked the fence even worse than Finn did! I realized I could no longer have my goats sharing a fence line. In fact, as I'd been putting them to bed last night I'd heard Finn zap himself and then cry out in pain--three times in a row.

So now the girls are installed across the meadow and up the hill next to the house. The boys are still down in the woods. No one cares for the arrangement, but I'm hoping that several hundred yards distance and two fences between them will keep everybody from getting tempted beyond what they can bear.