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Goaturday

By Phil Plait
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Is Caturday still a thing? I don’t care, because it’s now Goaturday.

That is my goat, Jack Burton.* He is one of four goats we have chez BA, the others being Sam, Batman, and Clayton Forrester. They are all fun and cute and adorable, and you can find lots more pictures of them on my Instagram feed (for all my social media links, go to about.me). For example, here is video of me feeding them apples, and here is Jack yelling, “What what?”

I’m on travel right now and my wife sent me this photo of Jack to remind me of some of what I’m away from. It makes me homesick, but it also makes me smile that he’s such a dork, chewing with his mouth open. They’re all dorks and I miss them. But look at him! Look!

When I get home I will scratch them all on their heads and pat their bellies and they will in turn belch in my face and poop everywhere, because they are goats. That’s all as it should be.

*Because I know someone will ask: Here ya go.

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