What did you do today?

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When I got home this evening I stopped at the goat pen to give them their nightly hay.  The gate to the hay mow was open and Leif was standing on top of the hay bales.  The rest of the goats were standing around chewing their cuds pointing their hooves at Leif and saying "He did it!"

UPDATE.  Well, it wasn't a fluke.  When I went out to feed this morning the gate was open again and Leif was back on the stack! I changed the locking system.  As of tonight they haven't opened the gate again.  I'll know in the morning if they can un-clip a clip that's clipped to an eye bolt!

My goats open gates too! They watch me very closely and after I leave they try to open the gate. I switched to using a threaded D-ring. That fixed it.

Once I had tethered my boys to the fence to chew down on some aggressive Blackberry vines (tied them too closely together). I came out an hour later to check on their progress and there was only one goat there with both leashes connected to the collar of one goat! I don't know how that was possible. It only happened once and I wish I took a picture.