I got rammed by a goat from behind when I was eight. It nailed me so hard I went up and over a fence. I wasn't near the goat. I wasn't facing the goat. I wasn't even looking at the goat. I like goats, but this one decided to ram me for no reason. I wasn't somewhere I shouldn't have been. Maybe scolding a goat doesn't work the same way as scolding a dog so I don't know what anyone could have done. This is a video of a toddler doing toddler shit and a goat doing goat shit. Furthermore, I think this is in a petting zoo, which means the parents weren't doing anything wrong either. People have a hard time accepting that some times, bad shit happens and that's just how it is. It's nothing to get angry about (and I'm not really interested in hearing a bunch of shit about petting zoos,) it's an unfortunate incident
Goats (and some other animals that do this) really get my dander up for some reason
If I see one do that to a child in reality I might just take a cricket bat to it
The animal, that is. Not the human child
I definitely agree that the little goat schouldn't be punished, but you are wrong about why the goat does that. The kid wasn't an asshole and probably didn't mess with it. This is how little goats play with each other.
Edit: You can see how the kid bows down in the beginning of the video. For little goats this is actually an invitation to play. Normally a baby goat shows another one its forehead (and little horns if they have some) to invite it to play a little "let's smash our foreheads together to see who's stronger" game, so this is actually just a misunderstanding.
you can see the child has its head in the goats face and was touching its neck at the start of the video
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you can also see that when the goat rears back for the charge that the child leans back up from having been messing with the animal to start walking towards it again
Well, it's really hard to see what the kid was doing at the start of the video, but I've already seen a few goats grow up and this is how I'd analyze the situation. They can be pretty forceful sometimes even though they are just playing and this looks like an especially strong willed little goat.
its pretty safe to assume that if a childs hand is near the back and neck of an animal and his head is craned down infront of the animal that said child is at the least attempting to interact with it, usually in a forceful or annoying manor
Yes, of cause the kid is trying to pet the goat, I just think the goats reaction isn't because it found this especially annoying, but because it thought the kid was kind of challenging it to a "duel". But of cause I don't know anything for sure.
Well, I think neither the child nor the parents saw that coming, but even if the parents told the child not to go and pet the goat, I think the child is too young to be sure he understood this correctly, so I wouldn't blame it. If the cild was maybe 10 and was warned by its parents, I'd agree with you, but I don't think that's the case. I mean, whoever is filming the video could have easily stepped in before the accident if the child was not supposed to go to the goat, so I guess they wanted to make a cute video of the child petting the goat and never thought this would happen, so no one is to blame here.
If I see one do that to a child in reality I might just take a cricket bat to it
The animal, that is. Not the human child
Edit: You can see how the kid bows down in the beginning of the video. For little goats this is actually an invitation to play. Normally a baby goat shows another one its forehead (and little horns if they have some) to invite it to play a little "let's smash our foreheads together to see who's stronger" game, so this is actually just a misunderstanding.
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you can also see that when the goat rears back for the charge that the child leans back up from having been messing with the animal to start walking towards it again