Ok, now that we gave Jeanne a little break (and besides, she’s asleep on a plane to Miami right now anyway), we can get back to my last few pictures from Shepherd’s Harvest. I present the baby pygmy goat:
Apparently, when he’s fully grown, he might be knee high. Awwww…. I wonder if the cats would notice him? Can you litter train goats?
Besides all the goats and sheep that are part of Shepherd’s Harvest, there was a second, simultaneous event going on at the Washington County Fairgrounds:
Sort of boggles the mind, doesn’t it? What sort of magic do you suppose llamas do? Coin tricks? Levitation? Sydney, as the only magicians I’m aware of reading this blog, could you or Rick help us out here?
While we all wonder about that, let’s move on to what you’re totally waiting for – baby llamas!!
At that point, Jeanne pulled me away from the pen, because apparently the mama llamas were not happy with my picture taking…
Wow, talk about baleful stares… Thanks for the heads up, Jeanne!
Here’s a little prelude to some kitty photos you’ll see next week.
“Hee hee – maybe I can eat off this mousie tail before Mom steals the tail from me!” -Mayhem
Have a great weekend, everyone! I am heading “up nord to da cabin” with my brother and SIL. I’ll try to get caught up Sunday night…
I. Want. That. Goat. He is the cutest little itty bitty baby!!!
Have a great trip up nord!
The “full grown” pygmy goats are also adorable, and make great kitty toys!
Come on! How can you resist that face?! I’m sure Chaos & May would appreciate someone else taking over the modeling duties 😉
I wonder if my condo board will allow me to keep baby pygmy goats and widdle llamas?
Doubtful.
Have a great weekend!
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Awwww – those pygmy goats are so cute 🙂
Llama magic huh? I suppose they’d try to pull a knitter out of a hat or something…
I think Llama Magic is, in fact, extreme cuteness. Have fun up north!
Cute baby pictures! Mayhem has excellent, pointy teeth, too!
“We prefer to be called ‘goats of small stature’ – not pygmy. We find that term demeaning now. We’ve filed a class action suit. Please cease and desist calling us by the ‘p’ name.”
Thank you.
Goats of Small Stature
Awwww, so cute. I LOVE pygmy goats. Our neighbors up the road keep them. They are so cute, and so tiny. I want one, I think it would be funny because I just know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that JinBao would try to terrorize one and would get head butted. I can just picture JinBao and our little goat romping around the yard. Plus they make excellent lawn mowers.
Adorable baby animals!
I think llama magic is that way they manage to look serene and above it all no matter what’s going on. Great photos!
Enjoy your weekend! : )
Have a great weekend at the cabin!!
Oh, I’m sorry I missed the animal barns. I would’ve loved seeing the baby llamas.
See now, we always say it “up nort” (must be those Quebecois roots) – have fun.
Maybe it’s evil llama magic?
My best buddy since before kindergarten has two pigmy goats, they’re very sweet animals and they’ll eat anything you feed them.
Those llamas suck at magic, but I’d rather watch them than David Blaine any day.
Awww the goat and llamas are so cute.
that looks like a particularly yummy cat toy. Lucky kitties.
awwwhh.. definite cute rating is very high on those photos.
litter train a pygmy goat? I’ve heard that some folks put diapers on them and keep them inside. silly, yet true.
Good thing Jeanne pulled you away from those llama-mamas or you might have truly seen some llama magic (like how far they can spit when mad, and just how bad it smells – eewwww)
have a great weekend
omg, I WANT A BABY GOAT!! Enjoy the weekend. (In Michigan, we actually say ‘Up North,’ but people from other parts of the country still don’t understand.)
Gah! So many cute little knobby knees! Totally worth the baleful stare. (Probably would not have been worth a bite or a spit in the eye, but baleful stares are easily overcome.)
Chris- That’s it- I need to have some Llamas- without the duck!
Have a great time this weekend.
While you’re away, the mousies will lose their tails.
Maybe the llamas do some sort of magic with spit. Don’t those guys spit?
I want to grab all the babies and kiss them on their widdle heads!!
Baby pygmy goat? Too. Cute. Must. Have. Do they give off yarn-able fiber? Have a great weekend!
Hey, I’ll be “up nord” near there in July! My brother lives in St. Paul, so we’re flying in to see him for a few days before we visit a friend’s cabin near Hibbing.
I think if you put your mind too it – you could litter train a pygmy goat.
Oh! Too. Cute.
The baby llama pictures were definitely worth the wait. Have a great trip!
oh, that pygmy goat is too cute for words!
Have a great weekend! Such cute babies — and of course the excellent mouser is extraordinarily cute!
Aaaaaaaaaaw! 🙂
They are all too cute for words. Especially the fierce lioness in the last photo. 🙂
Have a great weekend!
awwwwww, babies…. Soooo sweet!
That baby goat is too cute; and the baby llamas – adorable! The moms do look a bit pissed though; good thing you had Jeanne looking out for you.
Yeah, Choas does love the felted mouse!
First the picture of the faceless bunny. Now a pygmy goat with HUGE eyes. Where the hell do you live again?? Although the goat is a little cute. Do you think he’d keep my grass trimmed?
Pygmy goats are soooooo cute. Somewhere I have a photo of #1 son, aged ~2-1/2, posing with one at an undisclosed location in the Black Hills. Hard to say which was cuter, really.
awww I don’t really like goats all that much, its their eyes I tell you, but that one is super cute!
That’s it, I’m moving to Minnesota and buying a farm.
that goat is too precious! And look at the sticks on that llama baby!
baby goats, baby llamas… it’s all good. I’ll have my very own baby goats come september.
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Hiya! I’ve been lurking on your blog for long enough now. It’s time to comment. First of all, super cute photos of the kittikins and thank you for all the contest info. Second, I whipped up a dishcloth using your woven stitch and I love it! I used a seed stitch edge (two stitches on each side) and a regular ole knitted bind-off and it doesn’t curl, roll, twist, or shout. It does, however, look pretty snazzy so thank you much for that as well. I hope you have a wonderful weekend. I’m off to go see if I have room in my hatchback for a pygmy goat. 🙂
As a llama owner, I’m suspecting the llama magic is this trick they do where they make the pasture disappear. And llama stares can be quite unnerving, can’t they? DO NOT DO WHAT YOU ARE DOING. CEASE AND DESIST, HUMAN. And mostly? We do.
You cannot litter train goats. OKAY, there may be a goat out there in the universe who is litter trained, but the learning curve is going to be…….less than pleasant, shall we say. Buy yourself a goat and have it come live here on my farm, then come visit us. I’m thinking a pygmy stud for my angora females might make a nice crop of pygora.
baby llamas hypnotize you so that the moms can spit at the back of your head while you’re taking pictures of the horrible cuteness. then, while you’re trying to figure out what just hit you in the back of the head, the vorpal bunnies come and gnaw your feet off at the ankle bones.
unless, of course, you have a very alert friend to pull you away at the last possible moment.
mr. o’kitten was quite smitten with the idea of fainting goats for awhile. did you see any of those? the pygmies don’t faint, do they? perhaps at the sight of evil bunnies…
Chris,
You can make a llama vanish, appear, levitate and vanish from mid air, transform from a llama into a person or a person into a llama or from a stuffed animal into a full grown llama.
Just think of the tricks tigers do in some of the big shows, llama can do anything a tiger can do.
Of course, if you can come up with a llama and a gig for us in MN, we can come and show you what magic a llama can do, live and in person.
Rick
What Rick said. Mostly appearing, disappearing, and changing to or from something else.
That pymgy goat and the baby llamas are so cute! I can just see a pygmy goat on your table or counters. 🙂
I was spit on by a Llama as a kid, at the zoo. Boy, I was traumatized for a minute, which is why I’m going for the pygmy goat. Oh my!