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What are your pet peeves of the goat world?
Personally my biggest pet peeve is people breeding their goats without a purpose. Like breeding a doe having the kid and drying the doe up to do it the next year without any sense of need or reason besides wanting cute and fluffy kids.

Yours?
 
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New pet peeve... paperwork, mountains of paperwork. When do I get to stop and just grieve?
Other pet peeve... in laws that insist on taking possession of my husband's ashes. He is hidden for the moment and will be put with me later. Since when does 16 years of raising him in an abusive household trump 37 years of marriage?
 
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in laws that insist on taking possession of my husband's ashes. He is hidden for the moment and will be put with me later.
Soon, it will be the 2nd anniversary of the death of my sister. Her ashes were put into small urns and divided amongst family members. For Christmas, Mama will be getting an encased locket pendant with a necklace chain containing a pinch of the ashes from her urn. She has wanted some type of wearable jewelry for ashes and couldn't bear the process of shopping for it at that time.
 
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@goathiker .Im sorry you are dealing with this. The paperwork is stressful. Order at least 100 death certificates. Its awful how much they dredge you through. It will end. I promise.
The In-laws are just lost too. I know its hard, but please be patient with them. Its hard to lose a child, even though they are adults. I really liked the idea that @NigerianNewbie suggested. The people at the Funeral home could open the urn and place a small amount of ashes in a locket for them. The rest you could return to your hiding place.
I understand you have the loss of a spouse, they a child. It is all an awful loss. I pray for you & them.
 
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I was stumbling around ebay and found Ty beanie babies. (incredible prices for a toy) anyway- they had a little goat.
Here is what the tag on the beanie goatee says....
though she's hungry, she's in a good mood
Searching through garbage, tin cans for food
For Goatee the goat, it's not a big deal
Anything at all makes a fine meal!


And that is why goats have such a bad reputation about eating anything..... (I spend an incredible amount of $$ to feed goats the best feed available. and all I needed to do was go
to the city dump?) :mad:

Sorry, that just irked me. (I guess they no longer make those toys- but ....)
 
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Goathiker sorry they are doing that to you. One thing with abusive individuals is they don't like to give up control. I like the suggestion of providing then with a small amount of ashes in either a small token item or even some places make those spun glass items for display (I will have to look up the place I am thinking of) . Funeral homes normally sale the necklaces or key chain type keepers. I would not give them all of him. He was your husband and property of you now. If they make a fuss in a court of law it would hold up that you would keep his ashes.

We are still thinking about you and try to hang in there. Congrats on grandbaby and best wishes.
 
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I think this is the place I had found but never got to use them due to the cost.

 
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Peeve.... family dramas! I am just over them all at this point. Mama is a need to make people feel guilty over something necause she cannot be happy about anything.... and is getting SO much worse lately. Middle son has learned to live off the system and it is starting to bite him in the behind some. I tell him the down low of his crappy ways and somehow i am the bad person now. Which makes him the pittiful me person. Then oldest son and dil want to build a house out here and just all of that is crazy pants and they have not even broken ground yet. Oye these people gonna drive me to drinkin!
 
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Speaking of family members doing people wrong. . . Not me but my friend is having issues with her parent taking advantage of her. How can someone's parent do so many unthinkable things to their child just in order to make a quick buck? My head is in shock and heart goes out to her. Naturally my instinct was to tell her to go public with it and let the press have a field day with it. I am pretty sure someone would set up go fund me for her over it with how dramatic the actual situation is. I won't say what it is yet since things are pending but my mind is blown.

Hang in there everyone and don't let things get you to far down this holiday season.
 
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@goathiker I’m sorry you’re dealing with mountains of paperwork and crazy in laws instead of being given time to grieve. That’s great news about the miracle baby! I think a move might be just what you need. And as far as the ashes, his parents are just going to have to deal with whatever you decide. He was your husband for many years and they really have no say in it. That may sound harsh but they sound like they’re being real jerks about it and lacking respect for you and your marriage to their son. I hope you can get through all this and have time to just feel whatever it is you need to feel to start a very long healing process.

@Sfgwife, ugh, that really sucks. I cannot stand family drama. It drains you. It sounds like there’s so much going on at once, that it’s impossible to put out a fire before a completely different one has started.

@DDFN it almost sounds like your friend has been conned by her own parent. That’s pretty dang low. Even if her family is a flop, I’m glad she has a good friend in you.
 
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@goathiker I’m sorry you’re dealing with mountains of paperwork and crazy in laws instead of being given time to grieve. That’s great news about the miracle baby! I think a move might be just what you need. And as far as the ashes, his parents are just going to have to deal with whatever you decide. He was your husband for many years and they really have no say in it. That may sound harsh but they sound like they’re being real jerks about it and lacking respect for you and your marriage to their son. I hope you can get through all this and have time to just feel whatever it is you need to feel to start a very long healing process.

@Sfgwife, ugh, that really sucks. I cannot stand family drama. It drains you. It sounds like there’s so much going on at once, that it’s impossible to put out a fire before a completely different one has started.

@DDFN it almost sounds like your friend has been conned by her own parent. That’s pretty dang low. Even if her family is a flop, I’m glad she has a good friend in you.
They have and its sad. Then when your not allowed to even talk to the family member about what they did. If anyone prays she could use them . And thanks i try to help out even if it is just to let her vent. I have one big word Karma!
 
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Another pet peeve. Fireworks in December. Can someone send out a notice or flyer or even carrier pigeon to let us know? Was up at my mother's since she was having a bad day. It was already dark outside and they went off and about scares her to death thinking someone was shooting. Am I missing something why are people setting off fireworks on Dec 4th?
 
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Pet peeve.... about goats.... when you put your animals away for the night, and some bright spark takes his guests on a midnight walk to show them the animals. Waking you up because your precious goats are hollering at strangers visiting them. And then tomorrow that person coming to you, to tell you that Gizmo gave their guest a black eye because they were trying to kiss his nose and he is not a kissing goat in a kissing booth..... and they j7st cannot understand why he is so mean.
 
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