One nice thing about where we're at is that there are still lots of rural areas. Right behind our community, for instance, are farms. We took the back roads home one evening after dinner, and we stopped to visit with the animals. This mother & child seemed very content - at least until we showed up. Then junior decided to visit us at the fence to see what we were all about, OR - possibly to see if we had anything interesting to eat besides grass. We felt really guilty that we had nothing to offer aside from a very old piece of Orbit gum (dirty mouth? Clean it up!) .
Junior let us pet him (or her, we never did find out), and mom didn't seem too worried. She did look up once or twice, but I guess that we looked harmless to her. That, and the fact that they were inside a secure fence, and she knew junior couldn't go too far.
In the very same field were a herd of goats. They were as far away from us as possible when we arrived... but we did our best goat impersonations, and they all came running to the fence. (probably to see what they could do to shut us up!)
They too, were disappointed that we didn't have any treats. Unlike the lil donkey-who let us pet him - the goats ran back off to the other side of the field... except for this one - who was a real ham (!)
The cows, on the other hand, took off running in the opposite direction when we tried to get them to "moooove" toward us!
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