So I haven't been on BYC for a couple of days. Been getting aquainted with my new goats. Who for the first day they were here did nothing but cry because they missed their herd.
So day two of goats being here we lose our power due to a downed tree. We have well water. Without power, there is no water.
So we get told that power will be up the next day. We decide to stay in a hotel for the night. I am packing up my things and my kids and DH's things and the neighbor's 8 year old girl asks my daughter if she can come over and see the new goats. I tell my DD (who is 7) that now is not a good time because I was packing and could not be out there to supervise. I hear DD tell this girl what I said and then I went on packing our stuff for the trip with the intention of asking her over to see the goats when we were on our way out and all set.
The next thing I know my DD comes running into my bedroom to tell me that she caught the girl with her older cousin or friend inside my goat pen with the goats!
When DD confronted her they blew her off and the older girl said it was fine that "she knows all about goats"!
Knowing about goats was not the point!
I am still fuming about this now. I cannot believe this girl would go into a small pen with two animals that she has never met before. How stupid of her! Not to mention that one of the goats isn't mine, and is a loaner from the breeder as a companion to the one I purchased until my second goat can come home. She is a very valuable show quality goat that the breeder has very high hopes for, and she tries to get out every chance she gets. If something had happened to her.... I shudder to think of it.
I cannot believe the audacity they had to waltz onto my property and mess with my animals.
I immeadiately padlocked the goat pen which has a 6 foot high fence that I doubt they are climbing over.
This girl has been a bad influence on my daughter a couple of times. When we moved in here a year and a half ago we were so thrilled that another little girl lived across the street for DD to play with. But within a week of playing with the neighbors girl my then 6 year old DD was coming home talking about make-up, and what clothing to wear that would make boys like her more!
I was floored. We talked to her parents who are really nice people who we get along great with, and they were very apologetic and basically blamed it on a couple of older cousins she hung around with and the local public school system. We didn't let her hang around with this girl very often after that (we homeschool, so they don't go to school together). Occasionally she would ask my daughter over to play, but ONLY if she didn't have a friend over already and she has literally sent my daughter in tears because she asked her over and then sent her home so she could have another friend come over instead. Everything is a competition with this girl too. She is always rubbing it in my daughters face how she tons of brand new toys and clothes. So I basically stopped them seeing eachother alltogether.
But it's nearly impossible when you live right across the street from eachother.
I just couldn't believe the whole goat thing and had no clue how to react other than padlocking the pen. So sad that I should even have to do that.
So day two of goats being here we lose our power due to a downed tree. We have well water. Without power, there is no water.
So we get told that power will be up the next day. We decide to stay in a hotel for the night. I am packing up my things and my kids and DH's things and the neighbor's 8 year old girl asks my daughter if she can come over and see the new goats. I tell my DD (who is 7) that now is not a good time because I was packing and could not be out there to supervise. I hear DD tell this girl what I said and then I went on packing our stuff for the trip with the intention of asking her over to see the goats when we were on our way out and all set.
The next thing I know my DD comes running into my bedroom to tell me that she caught the girl with her older cousin or friend inside my goat pen with the goats!
When DD confronted her they blew her off and the older girl said it was fine that "she knows all about goats"!
Knowing about goats was not the point!
I cannot believe the audacity they had to waltz onto my property and mess with my animals.
I immeadiately padlocked the goat pen which has a 6 foot high fence that I doubt they are climbing over.
This girl has been a bad influence on my daughter a couple of times. When we moved in here a year and a half ago we were so thrilled that another little girl lived across the street for DD to play with. But within a week of playing with the neighbors girl my then 6 year old DD was coming home talking about make-up, and what clothing to wear that would make boys like her more!
I was floored. We talked to her parents who are really nice people who we get along great with, and they were very apologetic and basically blamed it on a couple of older cousins she hung around with and the local public school system. We didn't let her hang around with this girl very often after that (we homeschool, so they don't go to school together). Occasionally she would ask my daughter over to play, but ONLY if she didn't have a friend over already and she has literally sent my daughter in tears because she asked her over and then sent her home so she could have another friend come over instead. Everything is a competition with this girl too. She is always rubbing it in my daughters face how she tons of brand new toys and clothes. So I basically stopped them seeing eachother alltogether.
But it's nearly impossible when you live right across the street from eachother.
I just couldn't believe the whole goat thing and had no clue how to react other than padlocking the pen. So sad that I should even have to do that.
