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What would Mr Goat find in your garden?
It's a beautiful day here, and I find myself looking out of my study window at a large, black, male goat on the hillside behind my house. If I squint he almost looks like a Ram of dubious reputation. He's not mine, he's my neighbours, but we've been staring at each other on and off for 2 years now and have developed an understanding. Non-coital of course. (I could see Dez' finger hovering over the button there)
Anyway, watching him munch his way through the tall grass (he has a fascinating method which I'll describe someday) I got to thinking that his life is deceptively hazardous. You see, he has to avoid 4 different kinds of poisonous snake, of which the Barrel crate is the most agressive,rock pythons (rare), poisonous giant centipedes (have found them in the bathroom and they really hurt when they sting. More feared than snakes round here ), and a Japanese hornet the size of a grown man's thumb that has been known to kill the elderly and particularly young with a single sting.
We have spiders too, big ones, the size of my hand, that jump about 6-8 feet when threatened. (they get threatened a lot in my house as Mrs FP hates 'em) Not poisonous however. (I think)
What would Mr Goat encounter in your garden?
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Last edited by Fat Pang; -02-02-2006 at 09:32 AM.
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