Jonathan & the Goats

I’ve mentioned before how much Jonathan likes to go to Deanna Rose Farmstead to feed and pet the goats. Tonight marked a new stage of Jonathan’s relationship with the Deanna Rose goats - now, he’s teaching them manners! He would take a pellet of goat food and let a goat eat the piece of food. And then, he would scold the goat, “Say thank you!” He went through an entire handful of goat pellets, insisting after each bit he doled out that the recipient say thank you.
(Now that I’m back home and got the details of the story, this section needs to be rewritten).

Jonathan would feed a goat a goat food pellet. And as soon as the goat took it; Jonathan would lean forward, throw his arms back (we call this “flight position”), and shout at the goat, “THANK YOU!!!” - in his barely understandable 20-month-old patois. It wasn’t the polite lesson that I initially thought it was. It was more of an annoyed insistence that the goats use their manners!

I think it’s time to teach Jonathan the saying about teaching a pig to sing. “Never attempt to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.”