Comments on: Get my goat

By: Kevin P Futers

Kevin P Futers — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:50:09 +0000

Uncanny co-incidence! I have a book out (see link) called the Adventures of the Billy Goats Gruff. As it is set in the 7th Century I refer to the three goats as the Grufflings (I think someone has already commented on the link with the Billy Goats Gruff). Their father is called Eadmund the Gruff, which makes them the sons of Gruff, or Grufflings!

Actually they should have been the Bruselings because there is no evidence of the word gruff in Old English, but I stuck with Gruff because people are familiar with it. Having read (if not understood) the Norwegian version, I note that they also use a word similar to Bruse

Good luck with your Grufflings!

By: Lucas

Lucas — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 01:58:44 +0000

Thanks Belinda, how great. There are 2 goats now, aren't there? Maxi has a companion? By the way, my friend Geoff recently drew my attention to this: Google is now using goats to keep down the grass!

By: Belinda

Belinda — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:42:52 +0000

Just to set the record straight, Maxi is my goat. Steve lives with us and takes him for walks while I’m at work to support the two of them and do all the dirty work. Fortunately goat poo is dry and sweeps up nicely, steve is harder to manage. BTW anyone who has photos of Maxi out and about please send them my way for me to put on his page (under construction). Thanks!

By: jessie

jessie — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:42:17 +0000

lucas the redfern goat made an appearance online! http://life-in-chippendale.blogspot.com/2009/03/walk-goat.html

By: Deanside

Deanside — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:14:59 +0000

Hmmm. Ronald and Nancy.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:36:09 +0000

Thanks all for your goatations!

Louise, I went to Ceres, they were lovely, but they only have cows and chooks.

Deanside, I have heard the expression “I have always wanted to own a goat” many times while working on these grufflings. I feel it must be the desire to be able to own (and thus tame) that unruly side of ourselves and the world. What would your goat be called, if you owned one?

For those reaching this far down in the comments thread, you are to be rewarded with an account of the great brunswick goat walk, which, amazingly, actually happened! Check it out here.

By: Deanside

Deanside — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:28:19 +0000

The Judas Goat is a pet kept by abbattoir owners. They help to calm down livestock entering the abbattoir (including other goats, pigs, sheep and cattle), and then they lead them to their deaths.

I have always wanted to own a goat. I remember getting a note from one of my friends in Perth saying that I was “capricious and fucked”, so maybe I have some kind of goaty affinity.

By: Sarah Goffman

Sarah Goffman — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:05:15 +0000

I believe the tapir has the biggest dick around…at least, the most interesting!
Goats are enchanted creatures, strong and friendly. I lived on a goat farm once, and had the most amazing relationships with them…Have fun!

By: Mickie

Mickie — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:34:38 +0000

Someone told me yesterday that male goats have the biggest size dick in relation to body size than any other animal!
Can you find out if that is true? …From an expert on goats, i mean!

By: Louise

Louise — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:05:21 +0000

My friend Martin used to look after the livestock at Ceres in Brunswick there. I’m not sure if they still have goats etc and Martin moved to Adelaide a while back but I seem to remember they were a very important part of the Ceres community. I think they branched out to cows while Martin was there but it was the goats that I seem to remember he loved most. I wonder what the council rules are about keeping goats in the Brunswick Preston area, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if someone’s got one there.