Goats in the News

Re: Movie, "Men who stare at goats"

Copied from: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7016872690

News Articles Ewan McGregor had a magical connection with the goat who starred in his latest movie.
November 2, 2009 12:39 p.m. EST

The Scottish actor had to work alongside the animal in upcoming film 'The Men Who Stare Goats' and admits they became very close.

Ewan - who also co-starred with George Clooney - said: "There was a scene when George and I are lost, and we are sleeping in the desert. I am supposed to be awakened when a goat with a little bell walks by. I follow the goat and it leads us to water. It saves our lives. We did the first take and the goat just ran through.

"But in the second take, the goat looked at me and it stopped perfectly in the frame. It stood there looking at me for almost 30 seconds. I looked at the goat and the goat looked at me, then it was almost as if he nodded and just carried on. It was absolutely perfect."

Ewan is not the only star of the movie to have praised the goat.

George recently joked he wanted the 'Velvet Goldmine' star to take acting lessons from the goat because it was more talented.

He quipped: "I'm now working with goats, we spent a lot of time together. The goat I had to stare at was a great actor - if you told him to do something he would. Now if I only I had got Ewan to take lessons from him we'd be onto a winner!

"But although they were good, I don't think I want to be working with animals again in the near future!"

Wedding Bells....

THE owner of a goat allegedly raped is demanding the two accused make traditional wedding arrangements.

State media also said the two young men accused of having sex with a goat in central Mozambique faced criminal charges.

The young men, whose names and ages were not released, were caught in the act by police and arrested outside the rural town of Mbucuta in central Mozambique, the website of the state broadcaster said.
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The owner was demanding the young men pay him damages and initiate a traditional wedding ceremony by paying "lobolo," a dowry, a family member told Radio Mozambique.

http://www.news.com.au/weird-true-freak ... 5834963925

Diapers required for goats in Iraq

This is how staggeringly pointless the killing in Iraq is getting: shepherds in the rural western Baghdad neighborhood of Gazalea have recently been murdered, according to locals, for failing to diaper their goats. Apparently the sexual tension is so high in regions where Sheikhs take a draconian view of Shariah law, that they feel the sight of naked goats poses an unacceptable temptation. They blame the goats.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=5622900

Not just in Iraq, coming to a neighborhood near you.

I am told there was a state worker in charge of the pack strings for Colorado who received a call from the local police. A complaint was filed against him for not diapering his stallion. Seems that a woman recently had moved into his neighborhood from NYC and was embarrassed by the horse.