Baby goat headbutts puppies

April 1, 2016 3:22 PM

Pipsqueak headbutts puppies (SLYT)
posted by joannemerriam (25 comments total)

Little Pipsqueak needs some goat friends! Or at least puppy friends that are a bit older.
posted by Elly Vortex at 3:49 PM on April 1, 2016 [6 favorites]

Those puppies are afraid of him! They're hiding under the furniture, they're so scared! He's a maniac! Maniac on the floor!

and he's dancing like he's never danced before
posted by Naberius at 3:51 PM on April 1, 2016 [14 favorites]

I can see the link between goats and Satan now. Thank you; this was very educational.
posted by Atrahasis at 3:59 PM on April 1, 2016 [3 favorites]

Does this look dangerous to anyone besides me? Thick goat skull evolved for headbutts vs. puppy face?
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 3:59 PM on April 1, 2016 [7 favorites]

Aw, at least she tried. Also, I've had no idea that goats (or any other animal for that matter) reacted with that pop corning motion like guinea pigs do.
posted by inconsequentialist at 4:08 PM on April 1, 2016 [1 favorite]

Get that fuckin' thing away from those puppies! But it's so cute!

It's all fun'n'games until Fido develops CTE. But what fun! Which games!
posted by Ice Cream Socialist at 4:08 PM on April 1, 2016 [1 favorite]

Sorry, but this is the best cute headbutt video.
posted by Aizkolari at 4:15 PM on April 1, 2016 [20 favorites]

All I could think about was that a writer was paid to come up with a script, and a voice actor was paid to read it. Mind-blowing.
posted by My Dad at 4:19 PM on April 1, 2016 [5 favorites]

Little Pipsqueak needs some goat friends! Or at least puppy friends that are a bit older.

Or be best friends with a young rhino!
posted by Celsius1414 at 4:22 PM on April 1, 2016 [2 favorites]

Goats on Tile Floors needs to be a thing.
posted by mudpuppie at 4:29 PM on April 1, 2016 [2 favorites]

It may be cute, but the fact remains that the goat is trying its darnedest to be a total asshole.
posted by jimmythefish at 4:30 PM on April 1, 2016 [1 favorite]

Yeah, they do that.
posted by davelog at 4:37 PM on April 1, 2016 [2 favorites]

Goats are assholes. Sometimes cute, yeah, but mostly assholes.
posted by Archer25 at 4:42 PM on April 1, 2016 [3 favorites]

I've been working at an NGO that works with refugees overseas and also does resettling and outreach over here. Some of the US work involves what they call the "New Roots" program, a variety of different farming and agricultural employment opportunities that refugees who've had agricultural experience can get into, to sort of get a toehold and learn small business management so they can turn that into their own jobs or businesses.

In Salt Lake City, they have a goat farming project that's part of this, working with refugees from three different African nations who've settled in Salt Lake. They work with various mining companies and public open land, places that need to be maintained; they let the goats out to go grazing on it, and then they have the goats for milk and halal meat in their own communities, and meanwhile the mining companies have well-maintained grassland.

Unfortunately I can't share it (they're strict about that), but recently their liason with my office sent us all a clip of the newest kids playing on this fake wooden rock that they made for the goats to goof around on; it is absolutely adorable. And now you can tell whenever any of us is having a bad day because suddenly someone will type something into their screen, and then sit back - and then faintly you can hear from their speakers: "...baaaa!.......baaaaaa!.....baaaa!"
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 4:57 PM on April 1, 2016 [12 favorites]

Goats are assholes. Sometimes cute, yeah, but mostly assholes

“Gosh, I thought he’d be happier in his true habitat.” – Marge Simpson
“Oh, I think he is.” – Wildlife Refuge Guy
“Then why is he attacking all those other elephants?” – Marge Simpson
“Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated.
"But, like people, some of them are just jerks. Stop that, Mr. Simpson.” – Wildlife Refuge Guy

https://deadhomersociety.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/justjerks.gif

_{via Dead Homer Society}
posted by bitteroldman at 5:31 PM on April 1, 2016 [2 favorites]

me irl
posted by swellingitchingbrain at 6:14 PM on April 1, 2016

Baby goats look like they're doing tricks on invisible skateboards.
posted by cazoo at 7:24 PM on April 1, 2016 [4 favorites]

Goats on Tile Floors needs to be a thing.
posted by mudpuppie at 6:29 PM on April 1

I think lambs work pretty well, too.
posted by InsertNiftyNameHere at 7:59 PM on April 1, 2016 [3 favorites]

buttermilk is still the best bad goat.
posted by oneirodynia at 7:59 PM on April 1, 2016 [3 favorites]

And there are more videos!
posted by oceano at 8:04 PM on April 1, 2016

Now, maybe this is just because I'm forever explaining to people who move out here things like, if you leave your chickens unfenced, the coyote will eat them, and golden eagles are protected, you can't leave poison traps out just because they ate your purse dog, but y'all, goats don't belong in the house.
posted by SecretAgentSockpuppet at 9:48 PM on April 1, 2016 [2 favorites]

a voice actor was paid to read it

That's Henry Strozier, who is also the grumpy older of the two Ocean Spray cranberry farmers.

Also, Too Cute marathons have gotten me through some very dark times over the past few years. It's not on nearly enough any more.
posted by Sweetie Darling at 4:28 PM on April 2, 2016

Totally mind-blowing.
posted by My Dad at 9:28 AM on April 3, 2016

I can't wait until the puppies grow up and teach the damn evil goat that herbivores probably shouldn't mess with carnivores.
posted by InsertNiftyNameHere at 10:21 PM on April 4, 2016

Goat Triplets in Sweaters
posted by homunculus at 12:57 PM on April 15, 2016