The Nature Photography Thread

[Snake lover 3-25]

VERY PRETTY!!!!!!! i wish i had flowers now...... but my orchid will bloom soon!!!

[Lori P]

We saw two of the cuuuuutest baby raccoons playing today but I didn't have my camera with me-- we were at a friend's house. They were racing around and up and down a tree. And they keep peeking around at us, giving it some thought, then shooting off again. Too cute!!!!

[Lori P]

These are for Shanley-- here is a young fawn that came to meet one of the pygmy momma's and her babies-- I have no idea where momma deer was!! The fawn raced back into the woods soon after.





And here was baby Rio-- we had just rescued a very pregnant pug, Maggie, who adopted Rio into her family as well!! She would clean her and snuggle her, and get upset when she'd jump out of the box!



And several months later (I can't believe I'm showing you all this!!!!) Rio had really claimed the whole house for her own....



I really do love my life!!!!

[Snake lover 3-25]

AWWWWWWW that's SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks 4 showing that!!!!!!!!!! now i want a goat too!!!!!!

[EdgyExoticReptiles]

can you potty train a goat lori?

[drache]

goats are very smelly, especially boy goats in spring

[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!!

[Snake lover 3-25]

awwwww now that would be cute to see a goat peeking out a doggie door!!!

[drache]

okay
I take that back
the horse stable where I used to work had a couple of boys as mascots and since this stable had no pasture at all, the goats were in the stables with the horses and when they were in rut, the smell had nowhere to go
I have been to places where they had goats and I didn't smell them, but I guess the memory of the smell is strong
to this I have to add that while I can identify strong animal smells and warn other people, I myself don't find them anywhere near as offensive as humans whose perfume blankets their surroundings

[Stefan-A]

Straight from the intestines of a perch.