# They really got his goat. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 10, 2018, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-got-his-goat/825903 "2018-12-10T18:50:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-got-his-goat/825903/21 "2018-12-11T19:57:09Z")
I’d like to see that rodeo. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-got-his-goat/825903/22 "2018-12-11T19:59:40Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Readers of this thread will have to separate the sheep from the goats. I fall asleep when I count goats. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-got-his-goat/825903/23 "2018-12-11T20:34:44Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I fall asleep when I count goats. Wait, did you just say “I follow sheep when I mount goats.”? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-got-his-goat/825903/24 "2018-12-11T20:39:00Z")
Any trolls reading the OP will be treated gruffly. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-got-his-goat/825903/25 "2018-12-11T20:42:02Z")
Let’s not butt heads. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-got-his-goat/825903/26 "2018-12-11T20:59:38Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Wait, did you just say “I follow sheep when I mount goats.”? What? Sorry, I nodded off for a moment. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-got-his-goat/825903/27 "2018-12-12T01:50:51Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > What is someone going to do with 60 pregnant goats? Plus, they found the trailer they were stolen with but not the goats. So someone had a goat-stashing getaway trailer somewhere? Whoever did it definitely wasn’t kidding around. The Government will give people extra money if they have goats on their property, so there is an incentive to steal these animals. Just part of the dangers of living in a nanny state. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-got-his-goat/825903/28 "2018-12-12T02:02:51Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > The Government will give people extra money if they have goats on their property, so there is an incentive to steal these animals. Just part of the dangers of living in a nanny state. You’ve got to be kidding me! ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-got-his-goat/825903/29 "2018-12-12T05:26:56Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > You’ve got to be kidding me! Not at all. A man can make a lot of money stealing and selling goats. Might even become a billyonaire. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-got-his-goat/825903/30 "2018-12-12T05:40:42Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Any trolls reading the OP will be treated gruffly. > > Regards, > Shodan Let’s not cross that bridge until we come to it. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-got-his-goat/825903/31 "2018-12-12T13:45:21Z")
These puns smell like a goat. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-got-his-goat/825903/32 "2018-12-12T14:11:06Z")
This thread has the potential to be the Greatest Of All Time. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-got-his-goat/825903/33 "2018-12-12T14:16:03Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > These puns smell like a goat. They make me horny. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-got-his-goat/825903/34 "2018-12-12T14:35:58Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > But. I swear I do. They are so cute and flur-ffy and shit. I want one with a bell on his collar. Please. “That there’s the Sheriff’s gal”! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-got-his-goat/825903/35 "2018-12-12T14:43:18Z")
[There’s a Magic card for that](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=142363). ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-got-his-goat/825903/36 "2018-12-12T18:34:50Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > This thread has the potential to be the Greatest Of All Time. > > Regards, > Shodan As long as people don’t take it too far. We’ve gotta handle this with kid gloves. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-got-his-goat/825903/37 "2018-12-12T18:44:27Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > ETA, Gato, do you give them haircuts? I have as little to do with them as possible. I bought my wife a very expensive set of clippers to shear them with. She is too lazy, and hires someone to do it. I get to write the check to them. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-got-his-goat/825903/38 "2018-12-12T19:56:16Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I have as little to do with them as possible. I bought my wife a very expensive set of clippers to shear them with. She is too lazy, and hires someone to do it. I get to write the check to them. :rolleyes: Always pay your sheep shearing bills. Otherwise you might find \*yourself \*over a bharal. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-got-his-goat/825903/39 "2018-12-13T12:31:48Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > But. I swear I do. They are so cute and flur-ffy and shit. I want one with a bell on his collar. Please. > > ETA, Gato, do you give them haircuts? If you do not shear them they will get urine soaking the fur around their backend, which scalds the skin, which attracts flies that then lay eggs there. The maggots feast on the diseased urine-scalded tissue. Search “sheep fly strike”. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-got-his-goat/825903/40 "2018-12-13T16:41:22Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Maybe the goats weren’t “stolen”…perhaps they were commandeered by the First Earth Battalion so men could stare at them. I loved the note at the beginning of the movie: This story is truer than you might think. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-got-his-goat/825903.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-got-his-goat/825903.md?page=3)