DOG BISCUITS.

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^ Well, now, that depends on what exactly constitutes goat food, since I am of the understanding that a goat will eat just about anything, so I probably have already eaten it!

Is how many die as their owners allow them to eat poisionus things.

Don't goats eat like, anything? Or is that a myth?

That is the problem. Other animals normally avoid poisionus plants but young goats wont.

Also, the majority of goat breeds can't be left out in the rain as they can catch pnemonia and die. Only two breeds that I know of can handle the weather. This is because most goat breeds origionally came from middle eastern areas where the climate is better. These goats skin is similar to human skin which is why to keep them, one must have adiquate buildings to shelter them in from both the rain and the winters drafts. On good days one can certainly let them out, but all pastures need a shelter and they need to come in at night.

One must daily check their pastures for poisionus plants and know what they look like if they come up. It was my job as a child to do that. We had neighbours who we had to watch as one refused to believe that deadly nightshade could kill a goat and his garden had a lot and he would throw it over (Despite being told not to many times) while he was weeding his garden.

Goats will always try to break through to other peoples gardens and would come up with ever increasing ways to do this. We had a neutered billy goat who was not so intelligent, and the nannies would wind him up and while he charged at them, they would position themselves near the fence they thought would give way, and move out the way last moment so he would hit the fence. They would go round just before to calculate the weakest part of the fence.

The worst people to keep goats are farmers because they treat them like other types of cattle or like sheep. The second worst kind of people are those who have never done any research in how to keep goats and knew nothing about poisionus plants before they got them. My Mum was regularly called out by the RSPCA because the RSPCA dix not havethe knowledge in how to keep goats and assumed a goat out in the rain and frost was ok as they checked it had food and water. Many a goat my parents saved their life after it had eaten a poisionus plant and was in a bad way. Goats cant go sick due to having two stomaches which is why they die where humans will tend to throw up as long as the poision is nottoo powerful. (Example of a milder poision that if one has too much ones body rejects it and one throws up is alcohol. The drunk feeling comes from mildly poisioning ones system to give one a high).

This tablet device keeps changing words I type so hope that it makes sense.