Baby goat was so small that he fit in a bowl when he was rescued! His mom told us how he learned to walk — then run! — and how he "beeps" at her when he wants to go home ❤️
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00:00When I saw him struggling breathing, I knew that I had to kind of intervene.
00:15So the first couple days it was really touch and go, like constant feeding.
00:21I had to snuggle him because he couldn't maintain his body temperature.
00:24So I took him everywhere with me, even the supermarket.
00:29He was so weak.
00:33The first days I stayed awake nonstop because I was convinced if I left him alone, he wasn't
00:39going to be alive anymore.
00:40Little bug.
00:41Little bug.
00:42Can you show me how you walk?
00:43Show me you big boy walk.
00:44Show me you big boy walk.
00:45Look at you.
00:46Look at you walk.
00:47Look at you go.
00:48I can't even describe how that made me feel.
01:01Find your legs.
01:03Find your legs.
01:05And then every day he just got better and better.
01:12In the weeks that followed, he started getting stronger and stronger.
01:17That's all.
01:18That's all there is.
01:19It's empty.
01:20Look.
01:21Look, it's empty.
01:22His little personality started showing up.
01:23What are you doing on my counter?
01:24And the bus was kind of his playground.
01:29Zoom all over the place.
01:36Never did I imagine that we would have one in the bus with us.
01:39He's three months old now, so we're starting to wean him.
01:42Every morning we hop out of bed.
01:43He still sleeps in bed with me at this point.
01:45We have our coffee.
01:46We have our bottle.
01:47And then we walk down the pasture.
01:53And I normally leave him in the pasture for the first part of the day where he hangs out
01:57with the rest of our herd of goats.
01:59Around midday, sometimes I'll hear him beeping across the field at me and he starts calling
02:03me.
02:04I go beep, beep back and he calls back to me and we go beep, beep.
02:05Yeah, I'm here.
02:06Are you ready to come back to the house for a minute?
02:08Are you ready to come back to the house for a bit?
02:19Yeah, let's go home.
02:22Let's go home.
02:23Then after seeing his bottle, he either spends time with me, like doing chores.
02:29Sometimes he'll go back up to the pasture with the goats.
02:31I kind of let him choose where he goes at this point.
02:35At night, he comes back here.
02:36Come get me.
02:37Oh, hi, buddy.
02:38Hi.
02:39Did you have fun with the goats?
02:40Oh, hi.
02:41And then at some point, he might decide to stay in the barn.
02:50But at this point, he just kind of comes and goes as he pleases.
02:55To see him not just having survived, but thriving and being this like spunky little goat with
03:02so much personality.
03:03It's very rewarding.
03:04Who do you think you are?
03:05Who do you think you are?
03:06Yeah.
03:07Okay.
03:08I get you.