One minute and 18 seconds of pure joy
October 26, 2011 7:29 PM   Subscribe

 
Definitely what it says on the tin. Thank you.
posted by Johnny Hazard at 7:33 PM on October 26, 2011


thank you for my daily dose of DELIGHTED PRANCING
posted by elizardbits at 7:41 PM on October 26, 2011 [1 favorite]


Oh! That excited little tail every time he/she prances!
posted by likeso at 7:42 PM on October 26, 2011 [1 favorite]


Oh yes please.
posted by smoke at 7:44 PM on October 26, 2011


Huh. I'm getting "Invalid parameters" but no adorable baby goat.
posted by maudlin at 7:44 PM on October 26, 2011


Gamboler's anonymous.
posted by Abiezer at 7:48 PM on October 26, 2011 [8 favorites]


Huh, is it surprising that maudlin can't get a minute and 18 seconds of pure joy?

maudlin, you could try the user's youtube page. Click the "see all" link under uploads and it's the second to last one.
posted by cjorgensen at 7:50 PM on October 26, 2011


How are there even any 'dislikes' on that video? More dancing? More playing?! WHAT DO YOU PEOPLE WANT???
posted by six-or-six-thirty at 7:52 PM on October 26, 2011 [7 favorites]


You just got the stick unstuck from my sister's port-hole. You are granted 3 internets.
posted by deezil at 7:53 PM on October 26, 2011


You just got the stick unstuck from my sister's port-hole.

Watching this video put me into a state of innocent pleasure. This comment made me feel like I will never be clean again.
posted by Clyde Mnestra at 8:04 PM on October 26, 2011


Baby goat stampede!
posted by tzikeh at 8:06 PM on October 26, 2011 [11 favorites]


Thanks, cjorgenson, I can see it now. Awwwww!

But does anyone else feel a little guilty watching it? The poor kid obviously has a gamboling problem.
posted by maudlin at 8:07 PM on October 26, 2011 [9 favorites]


The kid's got talent.
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 8:09 PM on October 26, 2011 [2 favorites]


my baby goat
posted by madamjujujive at 8:33 PM on October 26, 2011 [3 favorites]


Goat Stampede is one of my favorite things on the Internet. I've probably watched it 100 times. Sometimes, if I'm feeling a bit low, I go search for it and watch it again, just because it makes me smile.
posted by jacquilynne at 8:48 PM on October 26, 2011


I bet that mum goat has a pile of expensive toys somewhere, but, no, kid has to insist on playing with the stump...

(Seriously adorable. Goats are among the best things ever. Along with penguins, pugs, and otters.)
posted by lesbiassparrow at 8:51 PM on October 26, 2011 [1 favorite]


Eeeee! Watching this little fuzzy baby goat I can forget, for a moment, how horribly daemonically nightmarish they are!

No, no, wait. I remembered again.
posted by curious nu at 9:01 PM on October 26, 2011 [2 favorites]


Holy cow, madamjujujive, that is awesome. It's like a complete Rather Good Reunion (though I didn't see Pavarotti in there....)

gadoing gadadoing doing going doing gadoing doing....
posted by tzikeh at 9:03 PM on October 26, 2011 [1 favorite]


I needed this, thanks.
posted by Sylvia Plath's terrible fish at 9:04 PM on October 26, 2011


I’m trying to resist getting goats. This video is making it hard.
posted by bongo_x at 9:06 PM on October 26, 2011 [2 favorites]


A friend of mine just bought a house in the country in Florida so she can have a goat farm. Suddenly, it all makes a lot more sense.
posted by mostlymartha at 9:34 PM on October 26, 2011 [1 favorite]


bongo_x: "I’m trying to resist getting goats. This video is making it hard"

They're not nearly as cute when they grow up, if that helps. Actually, they're downright evil and unsettling looking. And often grumpy and aggressive.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 9:54 PM on October 26, 2011 [1 favorite]


I would cuddle the shit out of that goat.
posted by troublewithwolves at 10:05 PM on October 26, 2011


They're not nearly as cute when they grow up, if that helps. Actually, they're downright evil and unsettling looking. And often grumpy and aggressive.

{Naysayer alert! Gather now, my sweet herd, and jump as you have never jumped.}

gadoing gadadoing doing going doing gadoing doing....

{The one they call Joakim is still. All is well again. Disperse and resume cuteness.}

{Also, someone rouse those-that-faint.}
posted by Clyde Mnestra at 10:11 PM on October 26, 2011


I’m trying to resist getting goats. This video is making it hard.

Imagine that the goat weights 85lbs and the stump is your car.

Easier?
posted by fshgrl at 10:29 PM on October 26, 2011 [6 favorites]


>They're not nearly as cute when they grow up, if that helps. Actually, they're downright evil and unsettling looking. And often grumpy and aggressive.<

Like me.

My biggest hesitation is that I’ve heard that your fencing really needs to be incredible. I’m lazy, my fencing is half assed. Luckily my horses are lazy as well.
posted by bongo_x at 11:11 PM on October 26, 2011 [3 favorites]


After watching a horror flick, my wife was trying to find something a bit lighthearted before going to bed. I found this for her. She giggled incessantly. We're now ready for bed. Once again, talk of owning goats will take us to sleep.
posted by makabampow at 11:35 PM on October 26, 2011 [1 favorite]


Wow, this was great. I think we all need to watch stuff like this after every couple days of negative news.
posted by mitrieD at 11:47 PM on October 26, 2011


I think some goats must go through life thinking, "I bet I can get up there." (Where "there" is the highest spot near wherever the goat happens to be.) I used to visit a friend who had several goats, most of whom were content to placidly walk around in the field all day, except for one, who delighted in Going Where Goats Shouldn't. This included the roof of the barn, the roof of the truck, the roof of the house, the roof of the neighbor's house, etc. This goat was engaged in a lifelong game of King of the Mountain, and he was dead-set on winning.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 11:55 PM on October 26, 2011 [10 favorites]


Why does Kermit the Frog have goat eyes?
posted by TheRedArmy at 12:02 AM on October 27, 2011


What is best in life? To be in someone else's barnyard in early spring, watching baby goats knock each other off the top of a pile of compost. Top of the world, Ma!
posted by MonkeyToes at 4:32 AM on October 27, 2011


>They're not nearly as cute when they grow up, if that helps. Actually, they're downright evil and unsettling looking. And often grumpy and aggressive.<

So we'll get along well then.

Seriously, thank you for this. I have long wanted goats, but we're currently city dwellers. I have great fantasies of a retired country life with goats. (Well with a full menagerie. But goats are currently on the husband approved list.)

I think it's funny though that adorable things like this get posted on the blue, and then whenever someone posts a question about "should I get goats?" on the green, and reality sets in. I think I'm going to hang out here on the blue for a bit, with a baby goat stampede.
posted by librarianamy at 5:23 AM on October 27, 2011


Aww... what a happy little creature! It's like it's still figuring out what its body can do, and is excited to have recently discovered jumping.

>They're not nearly as cute when they grow up, if that helps. Actually, they're downright evil and unsettling looking. And often grumpy and aggressive.

Alpacas might be a good alternative. I've seen them on farms and at some shows, and they always look cute to me. They also look like a camel where the factory mixed up metric and imperial measurements.

The noise they make sounds exactly like someone loudly saying "Meh." If MeFi is ever looking for a new mascot, I think the Alpaca would be a good choice.
posted by FishBike at 5:28 AM on October 27, 2011 [2 favorites]


I have long wanted goats, but we're currently city dwellers

This is not as unusual as I once thought. My husband is totally enamored of goats and he, too, dreams of the day....

Alpacas might be a good alternative.

I know a woman who started an Alpaca farm. I visit her to buy poop (alpaca poop is gold!) Apparently you have to have a guard dog for alpacas. I find them a bit more charming and a little less evil than goats but they are also more expensive and harder to find and a lot taller.
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 6:11 AM on October 27, 2011


I have long wanted goats, but we're currently city dwellers

I'm a suburbanite, but I too have dreamed of goats. House goats. Mainly because I like the idea of coming home, walking into the kitchen, nodding to the goat hanging out on top of the refrigerator, scratching the head of the one balanced on the top of the cat tree, and then making myself some dinner.

The main problem with this is the other pets, because it already sounds like a damn stampede when the dogs and cats chase each other around, I can't imagine how much louder it would be if I added hooves to the mix.
posted by quin at 7:57 AM on October 27, 2011 [1 favorite]


I always have wanted a camel. But it is too late in my life for that now. Well cared for camels can live to be 50.
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 9:23 AM on October 27, 2011




My biggest hesitation is that I’ve heard that your fencing really needs to be incredible.

The goat is really good with the Épée.
posted by inigo2 at 10:32 AM on October 27, 2011 [4 favorites]


I enjoy goats. Baby goats are adorable.

Goats are also pretty stinky, but you can get past that because they are so cute.
posted by Ruthless Bunny at 10:33 AM on October 27, 2011


I might be biased.

Damn it! Now I want a lap goat too!
posted by quin at 12:14 PM on October 27, 2011 [1 favorite]


The expression of pleasure on this goat's face is positively catlike.

(That is a major compliment, Lou Stuells. And now I want a goat, too. Damn.)
posted by likeso at 3:06 PM on October 27, 2011 [1 favorite]


No way, my girls smell awesome. They smell like... uh... djembe drums. Only intact male goats are stinky. To impress the ladies, they anoint themselves generously - beards, forelegs, and all - with their own urine.

Or is it Axe Body Spray?
posted by Lou Stuells at 3:27 PM on October 27, 2011


Aww... what a happy little creature! It's like it's still figuring out what its body can do, and is excited to have recently discovered jumping.

I had much the same thought. Also, for at least half that video, he is thinking (in goatese, of course): "Look ma! Look! Look! I'm up here! Ma! Look! MA! MA! MA! Look at me, I'm jumping! Up here! Ma! Look!"
posted by jacquilynne at 3:35 PM on October 27, 2011 [1 favorite]


Goats with more toys to play on. Action really starts at 1:00.

Goats are awesome.
posted by BlueHorse at 7:28 PM on October 27, 2011 [1 favorite]


RIP Darren the waving goat
posted by homunculus at 8:18 PM on October 27, 2011


Oh my god. There is a whole series of youtube clips of baby goats on trampolines. As if the goats needed the help.
posted by jacquilynne at 8:33 PM on October 27, 2011 [1 favorite]


Jacquilynne, I thought better of you than to say something like that, and not PROVIDE GLORIOUS LINKAGE UNTO US.
posted by smoke at 2:54 AM on October 28, 2011


Goats on tramps:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

And for a change of pace, goats on pigs.
posted by jacquilynne at 6:42 AM on October 28, 2011 [1 favorite]


Goats on tramps:

I refuse to watch this. If you don't want to give money to tramps, that's your prerogative, but sending goats at them -- and filming it -- is reprehensible.
posted by Clyde Mnestra at 10:41 AM on October 29, 2011


>My biggest hesitation is that I’ve heard that your fencing really needs to be incredible.

The goat is really good with the Épée.<

Touche’.
posted by bongo_x at 12:12 PM on October 29, 2011


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