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09 August 2006

Shhhh! You'll startle it!!!! (Embedded video.)

post by: mudpuppie at: 14:38 | 15 comments

::laughs until tears stream down face, shows to co-worker::

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 August | 14:41

I didn't watch it with the sound on, but I laughed so hard when all five or six fell over. I've seen fainting goats on TV before, but these were really great clips.

posted by Specklet 09 August | 14:45

I thought it was so sad I couldn't watch it.

posted by getoffmylawn 09 August | 14:46

Some high school friends and I were very close to buying a fainting goat at one point (one of the guys lived on a horse farm, so we had a place to keep it) just so we could send it into fainting spasms.

Then again, we also nearly bought a decommissioned school bus.

posted by me3dia 09 August | 15:07

goml, if it makes you feel any better, it doesn't hurt them at all, and they recover from the faint in seconds.

posted by Specklet 09 August | 15:14

I really can't see any reason to buy a fainting goat that doesn't involve intentionally startling it. Bad day at the office? Startle the goat. Bored? Startle the goat.

posted by lekvar 09 August | 15:32

Totally.

posted by Specklet 09 August | 15:44

I thought the umbrella was pretty ingenious.

posted by mudpuppie 09 August | 15:52

If it was a human, I would be amused. I can NOT handle anything even remotely unpleasant regarding animals.

posted by getoffmylawn 09 August | 16:08

You're not... human?

posted by Specklet 09 August | 16:13

I am a bunny.

posted by getoffmylawn 09 August | 16:28

Okay, my secret identity as an evil vegetarian animal abuser has been revealed....

posted by mudpuppie 09 August | 16:36

I know you yell at chickens, pup!

posted by Specklet 09 August | 16:45

It's true. I yell abusive things at chickens. But only when they yell at me first.

posted by mudpuppie 09 August | 16:46

That was hilarious.

posted by occhiblu 09 August | 18:30

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