Remember when I said we threw caution and sense to the wind when we brought home two bottle-fed Nigerian Dwarf baby goats? Well, folks, I’ve done it again!

Meet Penny, Poppy and Polly:

As soon as I figure out how to tell them apart, you’ll be the first to know. Actually, Penny has a white tail, Poppy has the second most amount of white on her head and Polly the least white on her head. See? Easy peasy.

When we got them home this afternoon, I used my brilliant goat wrangling skills and let all three of the slightly skittish newbies out of the van. We then spent the next fifteen minutes chasing the goaties around, scaring them and frustrating myself and Ed before we finally caught them and carried them out to Phoebe and Mike.

Note: I don’t have brilliant goat wrangling skills. Yet.

We got them in with Phoebe and Mike and thankfully, since they are all approximately the same size, I’m not too worried about anyone picking on anyone else. Phoebe is the smallest and she’s already done the stand up on the hind-legs head-butt drop on one of the bigger goats. Phoebe, slow your roll. No one’s afraid of you.

We introduced the new babies to our “livestock guardian dog,” otherwise known as Bear the Great Pyrenees who’d rather be inside sleeping than outside protecting goats. It didn’t exactly go swimmingly. Video below.

Initially, Bear lost his mind and decided to chase them which caused Poppy to run into the fence. We leashed him and tried a more mannerly approach, but they are pretty skittish!

Bear might have been bred to be an LGD–well actually, we don’t know what Bear was bred to do. We happened upon him by chance and took him in. He’s what I would call a reluctant protector, or RP. I’m not entirely sure how much protecting he’ll do, but he looks scary to coyotes and foxes, I’m sure.

Work was done on the fence today and yesterday. Both Ed and his brother Rich worked hard. Unfortunately, there is a lot more to do. I’m hoping that by next weekend we’ll have the goats in their new place and won’t have to keep moving them around!