What did you do today?

[Nanno]

Goats do not sweat. They pant to cool themselves like dogs or deer. If I find that some of my goats are panting too often on our walks I'll usually clip them with a 5/8" clipper guard to shorten the hair but not remove it. It makes them look really sharp. The winter guard hairs sometimes linger well into June and they look course, dry and faded. A trim in late April or May gets rid of these and makes room for a healthy new summer coat to come gleaming in.

Phil and I took Finn and Sputnik with us to the "Color Run" 5k to support the girls' high school soccer team. We did not run. But we had a pleasant walk around the golf course and soccer girls squirted us with colored water and threw colored dust at us. We told them not to squirt the goats, but they could put colored dust on their coats. Everyone was very excited when we went by. Some wanted to pet the goats who were very dusty by the end of the walk and went "poof" when you patted them. Finn and Sputnik enjoyed showing off their tricks from time to time. Sputnik does not like to be petted by strangers, but he loves showing off his tricks for them, and he even "kissed" one woman when she bent down to say hi. I recently taught him to kiss but I was surprised that he did it to a stranger. She was surprised too but got a huge kick out of being kissed by a goat.