I don’t know if we’ll ever understand Meggie’s behavior. We trimmed some trees and bushes back yesterday afternoon and shared the cuttings with all of the critters. While everyone else happily dug in, it seemed that Meggie first needed to show the plum-tree branch who was in charge.
May 17, 2010
Morning Bray Farm 
May 17, 2010 at 3:54 am
That is just TOO funny … did she ever settle down the ‘dig in’?
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May 17, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Pat,
Yes, she finally did. Oy. 🙂
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May 17, 2010 at 5:32 am
i think the tree may have won there at the end =o)
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May 17, 2010 at 5:36 am
Love your pets, I get a good laugh. They are all wonderful, especially the “donkeys”
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May 17, 2010 at 5:48 am
Gee! She was really giving that branch what for, wasn’t she!
Angus does that with his food, too, to the extent that he is hungry, happy and excited to see it. He bats at his dish and rattles it all around.
When we have Picnic Kibble on the patio (I put it right on the stones), he bats the individual kibbles around and chases them.
When the kibble is absolutely killed, he eats it.
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May 17, 2010 at 6:27 am
Itchy head? Nesting intinct?
Or, maybe she just didn’t like her snack stuck in the fence? At any rate, she’s cute!
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May 17, 2010 at 7:20 pm
C,
I’d like to think that this behavior was because her snack was stuck in the fence. Alas, based on her previous behavior, I know it was not. 😉
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May 17, 2010 at 6:49 am
C in WI may be right about the twig being stuck in the fence and it may be that she is struggling to get it out of that “hole.” What happened at the end, I am curious??? 🙂
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May 17, 2010 at 7:25 pm
MeMaw,
In the end, Meggie continued to fight with the branch, then ate some of the leaves, continued to fight with the branch, then chewed some of the bark off the branch, then continued to fight with the branch…
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May 17, 2010 at 7:01 am
Too funny! Did Bernard get some too since he’s too short to reach ’em?
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May 17, 2010 at 7:08 am
Nancy,
He sure did. 🙂
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May 17, 2010 at 7:03 am
I think Meggie has an aversion to change and she is eager for the Morning Bray routine to return to normal.
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May 17, 2010 at 7:50 am
Oh, the bell! Maybe she just liked hearing her bell ring.
I love the other goats calmly munching away as she pawed (?hoofed?) away at the branches.
I’m glad that Bernard got some, too.
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May 17, 2010 at 8:18 am
Awwww… Meggie likes to play with her food 🙂 What an adorable group, and I sure do love the background “music!”
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May 17, 2010 at 8:37 am
You go Meggie!!! She was sure showing those leaves and branches who is boss!!! Hilarious. 🙂
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May 17, 2010 at 10:01 am
LOL.. she better get a move on and start eating before her friends take care of it for her!
DI
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May 17, 2010 at 10:07 am
Hilarious! Maybe she likes to hear the bell ring? Cantankerous or not, she’s adorable, as they all are!
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May 17, 2010 at 10:19 am
I can’t stop watching this, it’s so funny. I think she wants it free of the fence. She is a determined goat. The others just munch away, paying no attention to her. I guess they are just used to her being a little eccentric.
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May 17, 2010 at 7:26 pm
Denise,
Eccentric is the perfect word to describe Meggie!
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May 17, 2010 at 11:05 am
Maybe she thought she needed to “kill” the food before eating it:))
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May 17, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Well…speaking from experience, it really does help to vent every once in a while. Better to let it out on a tree, I suppose.
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