Goat at San Mateo Peninsula Humane Society for adoption

[BarnyardPunch]

Hello bay area goat folks,

The Peninsula Humane Society has a goat available for adoption. She looks to be a nubian cross. She's healthy, somewhat shy, but curious. She came in as a stray, so her age is unknown.

Her adoption fee is $25.

You can see a photo of Galena the goat here (scroll down a bit):

http://www.peninsulahumanesociety.org/adopt/otheranimals.html

If you're interested in Galena, please call the PHS and ask for Galena the goat, ID A457690. Or for more info please email Sandy: sandyd@PHS-SPCA.org.

This girl could really use a home and herd!

 

[Kooshie]

I would love to but no. We don't have enough room! The ducks...the pigeons....must. resist. the. temptation!

 

[cmjust0]

Hello bay area goat folks,

The Peninsula Humane Society has a goat available for adoption. She looks to be a nubian cross. She's healthy, somewhat shy, but curious. She came in as a stray, so her age is unknown.

You can judge her age up to around five years, give or take, by looking at her teeth.

Her adoption fee is $25.

That's cheaper than the sale barn, so be careful who you adopt her out to.

What I mean is...she looks like she'd make a good "recip" doe , and there's an awful lot of meat on those bones for the low, low price of $25..

You can see a photo of Galena the goat here (scroll down a bit):

http://www.peninsulahumanesociety.org/adopt/otheranimals.html

If you're interested in Galena, please call the PHS and ask for Galena the goat, ID A457690. Or for more info please email Sandy: sandyd@PHS-SPCA.org.

This girl could really use a home and herd!

Someone took the time to disbud her.. She may very well be a Nubian cross, but maybe not...she may be a purebred Nubian.

Did anyone check her ears for tattoos? They can be really, really easy to miss if you don't know goats...might help to put a flashlight behind her ears just to be sure there's no ink hiding in there.

Best of luck with her, btw. She's sure is a purty gurl.

 

[BarnyardPunch]

Thanks for the info cmjust! I work in a different part of the shelter, but will head over to see about her teeth and any tattoo. She's shy, so I'm not sure how much handling she will tolerate. She looks Nubian to me, but since I don't know a whole heck of a lot about goats, calling her a cross seemed safer.

I don't have the goat myself, she's at the Peninsula Humane Society/SPCA. They set the fee and decide who she is adopted out. My understanding is that they're careful to weed out potential adopters who might be thinking about the dinner table.

Hopefully someone will see this post and go check her out. C'mon Kooshie, what's just ONE MORE little goat?





Thanks!

 

[cmjust0]

Thanks for the info cmjust! I work in a different part of the shelter, but will head over to see about her teeth and any tattoo. She's shy, so I'm not sure how much handling she will tolerate. She looks Nubian to me, but since I don't know a whole heck of a lot about goats, calling her a cross seemed safer.

They usually don't like you screwing with their mouth or ears no matter how tame they are.. If you can get straddle of her around or just ahead of the shoulders, she'll try to back out from under you.. Catch her just behind the ears with your legs and pull her head up a little from underneath. You can hold her safely by the lower jaw by putting your thumb across it, inside the mouth, just behind the front teeth. Probably best to use your non-dominant hand for that, so you can still do what you need to do with your dominant hand. Don't put your thumb over her back teeth either, or she's liable to bite it off.



But seriously...don't.

You'll know where your thumb's supposed to be...the's a perfect 'void' there...it's really not a big deal at all, I promise.

I don't have the goat myself, she's at the Peninsula Humane Society/SPCA. They set the fee and decide who she is adopted out. My understanding is that they're careful to weed out potential adopters who might be thinking about the dinner table.

Hopefully someone will see this post and go check her out.

 

[BarnyardPunch]

Thanks for all your advice!

I will try and get a handle on her on Monday and see what I can find. I'd take her home if we had property. But then I'd have taken home the pig, several more chickens, a few barn cats and half the other critters there by now if only I had the land.