Here’s Beauty, Eweness and Rosie spending their afternoon like we’re hoping you’re spending your Sunday afternoon – maxing and relaxing! There’s lots going on around here like always, and our menagerie is growing (stay tuned, we’ll share some photos soon of our new four-leggeds), so sometimes these ladies just need their quiet time! We’re working on our Goat Park, so that all our sweet creatures have lots of room on easy street. What a life!
Goat Park!
Perry, our Groundskeeper at The Doctor’s House, came up with a great idea to build a Goat Park for Rosie and Eweness. Rosie is playful and energetic, but we can’t let her roam because she tries to head off-property, and she could also hurt herself on some of our vegetation.
So we’ve setup this big rock to start the park, right across from the duck pond. We’re going to fence it in and add lots for them to jump up on and over. Rosie and Eweness are about to be the luckiest bovines around!
Welcome Eweness
This weekend was a special one for our Ocean Delight/The Doctor’s House family – we are now one sheep bigger. Thanks to The Berry who found her, we welcomed Eweness, our first sheep ever, to the menagerie.
Eweness is sweet and pretty, and may be pregnant – so we might have more sheep soon! She comes to us from Denise Critch, who rescued her from the meat-truck last Monday. Denise already has a barn-full of animals, and since we have extra room we were more than happy to take this little sheep.
We picked Eweness up on Saturday, and she was nervous and skittish, as you’d expect. We were actually a little anxious about how introducing her to Mrs. Roosevelt the Goat. Eweness had been scorned by the goats at her previous home, so we wanted it all to go smoothly. We prepared a special place in the barn so we could introduce her to Rosie gradually.
Turns out we had nothing to worry about. When Perry put her in the pen with Rosie, they acted like reunited sisters. We had felt that Rosie needed a buddy for a while – that became clear when we saw them together. Eweness started to think she was a goat and tried jumping all over like Rosies does. Rosie thought she was a sheep and kissed her several times.
The ponies also seemed to welcome Eweness. When Denise and Jasmine, her previous owners, came to check on her, they were delighted to see how quickly she was accepted by her peers and how truly happy she seems to be here.
Apparently, we need to leave her inside for a couple of days so that it sinks in that this is her new home. Once she adjusts to the new smells and animals, she’ll be attached to her new family. We’re learning lots. Two years we had no animals. Now we have a whole menagerie – 4 ponies, a goat, geese, chickens, ducks, two golden retrievers, a Devon Rex and now, happily, a new lamb! And we’re happy that she’s here in time to help us celebrate Valentine’s!
If you’re like to see more photos of Eweness, you’ll find them on our Facebook page. And if you’d like to hear more about our Valentine’s special, please do so here.
Mrs. Roosevelt Doesn’t Need Power
… But she’s the only one that doesn’t! If you’re reading this, your power needs are in good shape. I thought a little Rosie – oh, excuse me, I mean Mrs. Roosevelt – would be a fun way to kick off a new year of blogging. Thanks to Newfoundland artist, new friend and former guest Leonard Howlett for the beautiful shot of this beautiful little creature. She’s sweet, too.
Trapped like …. Goats?
Rosemary sent me this shot of Perry, who takes care of our animals at The Doctor’s House. Apparently he locked himself in the goat pin! We think Rosie was happy for the company – she loves people! Thankfully, Rosemary was able to come to the rescue – but not before getting this shot!
Tuesdays with Murphy: Walking with Rosie
With this past busy holiday weekend at the Shag It Cafe and wedding event planning at The Doctor’s House, the two-leggeds around here think they’ve been busy dealing with lots of changes. But it’s really the four-leggeds who’ve had the most to deal with it. I now have not one but TWO new little ones to mind and show the ropes – on top of all my Guest Relations duties.
Joe of course has his new golden retriever, named Friday – he’s sweet and smart, but it’s still going to be a lot of work for me to show him all of our Ocean Delight ways. And Rosie, well she’s a unique one. And a new partner for Jerry and me when we go on our morning walks. She must think she’s a dog, because she acts just like one.
Anyway, I don’t mind my extra charges. It’s like I always say – we four leggeds have to stick together!
Rosie the Flying Goat
We are loving Rosie the Goat – she is such a sweet addition to our Ocean Delight/The Doctor’s House family. And … it turns out she can fly!
Joe went to the barn to check on her the other morning and she wasn’t in her stall. Somehow she had flown over the 5 foot gate! Then Perry went in and found her in the rafters of the barn, overhead. We couldn’t believe our eyes.
We put her back in the stall, and without running she sprung up and over the gate into the main part of the barn. Then she jumped up on the edge of the horses’ stall and then into the rafters – in about 3 seconds – like a monkey.
When we got her down, she hopped over the half door to the barn into the yard. And she seemed to be smiling (with her cute, mischievous grin) saying, “you can’t catch, I’m the gingerbread goat.”
But she didn’t run – she just waited there for me to take her for a walk with Murphy. She loves humans and other animals, and loves walking with Murphy and me. Goats are herd animals, and she cries like a baby when she is left alone.
I have to say, of the animals I have known, she is the most amazing. She walks by my side, comes when she is called and is very playful. Imagine – all that in a goat! Or should I say, a flying goat!
Meet Rosie!
Introducing Mrs. Roosevelt – the old goat! Actually, she is about 7 months old, and we call her Rosie for short. The Berry found her on Kijiji from a family that was no longer able to care for her, and so we’ve welcomed her into the Ocean Delight family.
Rosie is our first goat and she super friendly, kind of like the Bovid equivalent of Murphy – they’re two gentle peas in a pod! And she’s a living doll – a most beautiful ruminant. Look at all the new words I am learning – Bovid, Bovidae, Ruminant (hollow horned animal). No doubt we’ll learn lots from this little animal.
She is really gentle, loves people and kids, and is not a runner. She’s living at The Doctor’s House, where our Newfoundland ponies have taken a liking to her. As you can tell, we’re thrilled Rosie’s joined us, so expect lots of goat-blogging in the future! (And to see some more pictures, please click here)
Oh Sunny, Don’t Go Away
You can consider yourself an official Jerry by the Sea fan if you remember my first post about Sunny the Goat, way back in February. Sunny lives a happy life with Clifford and Shirley George, and must love this summer we’ve been having – all these sunny days, just like her namesake. She’s a cutie if ever there were one, and when Allison, the Georges’ daughter, sent me these shots, I knew I had to share them on my blog!
Non-Newfoundlanders may not get the title of this post, a reference to one of the greatest songs by one of (if not the) greatest Newfoundland musicians, Ron Hynes. I got to see him perform live once, and it was so good it was almost life-changing – please take the opportunity if you ever get it. We learned this summer that Ron Hynes is battling throat cancer, so please keep him in your thoughts and prayers.