Goatucation: Further Study of The Mountain Goat

It's time for Goatucation and today I am going to further goatucate you on the subject of my wild cousin, the mountain goat. I personally have never met one of my mountain goat cousins but the publicist and the male person did run into some when they visited Glacier National Park here in Montana. It's a very beautiful place - or so they said. This is one of their favorite scenes from the park. It's St. Mary's Lake....

But I digress.
The mountain goat is also called the Rocky Mountain Goat and it is only found in North America. Both nannies and billied grow horns just like us Nigerian Dwarf goats. Mountain goats grow a nice thick fur to help keep them warm in the winter; they can withstand temperatures to -50° F and winds up to 100 MPH. Brrrrr!

 Billy goats weigh from 100 - 300 pounds with the nanny goats being around 25% less. They are about 3 feet tall at the shoulders. If I weren't so in love with my studmuffin I might just find a goat like this veeeerrrrryyyy attractive.

 
Mountain goats are found in the Rocky and Cascade Mountain ranges in Northern Washington, Idaho and Montana through British Columbia and Alberta and the Chugach Mountains in Alaska.  Some of my white, furry cousins have been transplanted into Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and other places.
Hmmmm, I would like to see other places. I wonder how I can arrange something like that.

As you can see the mountain goat looks very different from a Nigerian Dwarf goat but they are still cute.

 

I hope you enjoyed learning more about my wild cousins. The publicist took these photos when she visited Glacier. She says it's beautiful and if you are ever in Montana you should visit.

I think she should take me there for a visit so I could meet my cousins! Wouldn't that be fun?

Feature Friday

Today I am starting something new; I am going rogue as they say nowadays. I am going to be a spokesgoat for a product other than Happy Goats Soaps. DON'T TELL MY PUBLICIST! She will surely withhold my goat treat tonight and I love my goat treat! Just thinking about those apples......





Well on to our special guest shop, may I present JudyElizabethsFlock! Judy Elizabeth lives in Montana just like me but she lives way, way up on the border by Glacier National Park. She makes adorable soft sculpture lambs. You thought I was going to say goats, didn't you? Goats and sheep get along quite well and oftentimes graze together. We goats will eat weeds that are poisonous to sheep but don't bother us at all. Judy Elizabeth has based her design on one of the sheep she used to have in her flock, Jena the Gentle Ewe. With each purchase of a lamb you get the tale of Jena; it is a delightful story written with love by Judy Elizabeth herself.





She also makes hand stenciled sachets, sweatshirts, tee shirts and totes all featuring her cute little flock of sheep. Plenty of choices for a unique Valentine's gift.




So why not graze on over to JudyElizabethsFlock and check out what she has; I don't think it's a baaaaaaaad idea at all.