Pearl

 Pearl came to us right as we were getting back into goats and breeding again.  

The girls fell in love with her right away and she has been the favorite ever since.  

My little Monkey girl just finished her first year raising a market goat and she was crushed about not having one anymore.  We had goats before and we love them and we always knew that someday we would get back to raising them.  We were living in a cul-de-sac and that’s not really the right environment to raise them in.  Then some really great friends of ours moved to a new house that had some land and a barn.  We were told we could keep the goats in the barn and fix up the pasture area just outside of the barn for them.  We really wanted to jump on this deal but we also wanted to make sure this was the right thing to do for our family.

By this time, I was looking on Craigslist for quite a while looking for a Pygmy goat.  We had them before and new they were great goats.  We knew they would be great little keepers for the girls to have as a forever goat. 

I found this really cute, friendly doe on Craigslist and it was south about three hours south of us.  Because of the distance I didn’t know if it would work out.  I kept looking at this girl off and on for several weeks and didn’t say anything. 

Then one day I went to look this little doe up again and she was gone.  I thought for sure that I missed my chance for this girl so I stopped looking for quite a while.  Then after several weeks I decided to look again and see what was out there and that little doe was posted again.  This time I got really excited and showed my husband.  The listing said she was a 3-month-old bottle baby a long with her brother because their mama was killed by the neighbor’s dog.  I said she would be perfect for the girls to start with. 

The only downside to her was that was she a drive away. 

We said we had to do it though; she was too perfect for us.

One day my husband went to work with a dog kennel in the back seat of his truck and after he got off of work, he headed south to go get this girl.  On his way home this little girl rode in the dog kennel on the back seat of the truck.  She hardly made a peep the hole way home.  The two of them got home only a few minutes before for the kids got off the school bus and walked up to our house. 

The kids didn’t know we were getting this little girl.  We kept her a secret from both of the girls.  The little goat was on the front lawn running around but still keeping close to us.  The girls saw her running around and they wee so excited to see her.  They couldn’t believe this little girl was all there’s.  The first thing they asked was “What is her name?”  We told them she needs a name; let’s think of something together as a family.  We started throwing names around for quite a while and then suddenly someone said pearl.  I don’t remember who suggested it but it was decided her name was pearl now. 

This is how Pearl came to live with us nine years ago.

                                                                

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