[Lori P]

Rhea, for shame! LOL Goats, well tended and given plenty of pasture most certainly are not smelly. Except, agreed, for bucks in rut. There's an odor you'll never forget. But my does have no bad odor-- their natural scent is not even as noticable as a horse's natural scent. They are remarkable clean, constantly grooming themselves against trees and fences, and my goats positively shine. Rio, having been raised in the house all winter, had almost no scent at all.

People think goats are smelly and dirty beacuse they think of that old billy grampa had chained up behind the barn-- poorly nourished, living in his little dirt circle, no doubt lice infested and wormy. Any animal who is poorly sustained will have an offensive odor-- you should smell some of the rescue horses when they first come in.

And Reed, well, goats aren't really totally potty trainable-- Rio wore a diaper when she was little (with a little hole cut out for her tail, too cute!!) but as she got older, she just started walking out the doggy door on her own... and by the time she had outgrown the doggy door, we pretty much had her moved outside. She really did remarkably well!!