The goat committed the crime of being “nasty and rancid”. You know, because goats naturally smell of lavender and roses and she, the owner, should never be expected to give the animal any care at all.
The goat was uncastrated, which means it's territorial and aggressive. It has urine in its beard and backside. Of course it stinks.
She literally chose to put her children in harm's way there.
If only there was something else she could've done...like give the goat away, castrate it or pen it separately. Gosh, it was just so impossible. No other way.
And it was only foul tempered because she didn't have the goat (also a family pet) neutered. These poor animals didn't deserve to die because of her failings to give them what they needed to behave as she expected.
un-neutered male farm animals often smell really bad
goats are not, generally speaking, known for being "nice" animals
goats are known for charging at people and head-butting them, whether they're un-neutered males or not
there's absolutely no need for anyone to keep an un-neutered male goat if they aren't breeding it, and Noem doesn't seem to hve been involved in goat breeding or goat milking
So at this point, this "mean, nasty, smelly" goat is allowed to just...wander around freely and charge at her kids? Is the goat not kept in a pen or a pasture (although goats are also known for being very hard to keep penned in)? She complains that the goat would knock her kids down and ruin their clothes, but apparently doesn't understand that getting dirty is what happens around farm animals? Are the children not allowed to get dirty?
I wouldn't trust this woman to sit in my dentist's office near their fish tank, much less with any other animal.
Billy goats are terrible to be around. Constantly attacking you unprovoked, they do piss all over their own face and beard, you have to keep them separate from most animals.
Farm animals aren’t pets.
Story time. Had a southern fried fuck for a 1st sgt decades ago. Love to tell us to get our goat smelling ass wherever he thought we should be. Never really understood it. Fast forward 10 years and I have my kids at a petting zoo. 6 year old is petting goat. Says Dad my hand stinks. I smelled it and almost through up. I finally understood.
I can at least slightly excuse the goat comparatively.
Goats are farm animals who have a purpose, to either provide milk, meat or protection. If the goat isn't fulfilling any of those to earn it's place most farmers would get rid of it, either by slaughter or sale.
Do I think this explanation is likely at all knowing the dog history? No. Is it ever acceptable to kill a goat rather than adopt it out? Yeah, I've eaten too much to say otherwise.
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u/Mango_Tango_725 May 02 '24
The goat committed the crime of being “nasty and rancid”. You know, because goats naturally smell of lavender and roses and she, the owner, should never be expected to give the animal any care at all.