Dr. Noll: Well that’s true because there are a lot of veterinarians that don’t work on them. Generally I guess I would recommend starting with a veterinarian that does some food animal practice. If you can’t find anybody there, you can get on the various web sites and often times there’ll be a place listed of people that have…of certain veterinarians that do practice with goats. If they don’t have that source, they might contact either their local veterinary association or the local college of veterinary medicine because they could probably direct them as to somebody that might be available in their area.

Tammy: Okay. That’s a good point. When somebody comes to you for the first time with their pygmy goat, what are the top three things they don’t know?

Dr. Noll: Often they don’t know about feeding them because everybody…When people get goats they hear all these stories, well
0:15:00.3 they can eat anything, they can eat tin cans, for instance, and all these things, and actually those things aren’t true. They like a good diet just like everything else, so I guess that’s the first thing that we have to try to tell people about and secondly, people need to realize that sometimes those little Billy goats do like to use their heads to butte people and things like that, so we try to talk to people about that a little bit. And the other thing we talk to them about is just basic care like we’ve talked about today, is what shots do we need to do and what type of shelter do they need, what type of general health treatments do they need through their life and we try to talk to people a little bit about that when they bring them in.
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