Posted on 11/27/2016 2:24:16 PM PST by nickcarraway
Meet Polly, an adorable rescue goat who is blind and suffers from severe anxiety.
Her owner Leanne Lauricella rescued the baby goat and says Polly suffers from neurological problems.
Leanne said the baby goat would often run around and cry if she couldn't find her.
Her owner purchased the costume from a store for Halloween, not expecting it to have such a profound effect on her.
The duck costume helped Polly the goat go from anxious and stressed to all zen and chill.
There’s something about that duck costume that calms her.
As soon as I put it on her, she just instantly got calm. She goes into a little trance. She just closes her eyes and she’s out.
HOW YOU CAN HELP WITH THE GOAT RESCUE:
https://www.gofundme.com/GOAbabygoats
https://www.facebook.com/thegoatsofanarchy
I’m glad the goat is felling better, but I am curious as to how they found this cure.
If I have a nervous blind goat, the first thing coming to my mind would not likely be “Hey let’s put a duck outfit on it - and don’t forget the big feetsies!!”
It has to be a sensory effect of both touch and increased warmth = security, I bet.
Dude, I’m as far from a snowflake as you can possibly get and I find this story cute. Some people take the responsibility of caring for animals seriously.
A blasting mat also works.
Cute costume from a thoughtful owner. But that term ‘Rescue Goat’. Does that mean she helps to ‘rescue’ people? As in being part of a petting zoo for upset people.
Or that she herself was ‘rescued’ from being put down at an Animal Shelter?
Reading the story revealed it was simply an outfit purchased sirindipity, for a Halloween costume, that once donned, surprisingly, totally relieved the anxiety symptoms.
Better have a lot of toothpicks handy to get those BBQ’d synthetic fibers out of your smile.
She’s adorable.
See, even a goat is calmed by the Donald.
Burn her anyway!
I hate to be a party-pooper but the pink outfit looks more like a unicorn
Sometimes you don’t. ;)
Another cure would be to hold a goat roast. Not all that tastee but it would help both the owner and the goat to understand the reality of the current food chain.
Maybe that ‘costume’ gives that goat a feeling that the ‘Thunder Shirts’ do for psycho-thunderstorm dogs?
Either way, goat meat IS delicious. And it’s obviously been well fed and is disease-free if it’s allowed in the house on the couch!
*SMIRK*
Oh, boy! Here come the, ‘You’re a DOG HATER’ responses.
No, Peeps. I’m NOT. But a goat in the house, in a duck suit on my couch? Nope.
Who does (or did) she rescue? Did she lose her eyes in a rescue? Does she still rescue even though she's blind?
Or was SHE the one that was rescued from a shelter?
I hope you don't mind me butting in, perhaps it will only take a nanny-second to post the amswers.
Thanks, Leni
Blind, senseless, anxiety driven and only comfortable when dressed up as something it isn’t ... sounds like an American snow flake to me.
Mecca U.
“What a good soul this woman is to help this sweet animal.”
Yep, whatever we can do to help the lives of God’s creatures, we should.
That’s why humane husbandry and instant slaughter is a moral imperative. And nothing should be wasted.
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