What should I watch for next?” Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Most goat people are just more then willing, if they’re close enough, to come over to help or to try their best to give you guidance over the phone. And try to figure out what might happen before you get there. Look into…reseach a little bit and know what you need to watch for and you want to make sure things are progressing. Well how do you tell things are progressing? You have to do a little bit of checking.

Tammy: Yeah so it’s for somebody who’s probably not just the casual animal person.

Jewel: Right.

Tammy: Okay.

Jewel: Yes.

Tammy: Now do you have…I know that I’ve talked to actually one other person in Washington State, I guess it was a vet, and we were talking about parts of the country where pygmies were pretty popular and do you have any problems or have you had any pygmies surrendered to you because people couldn’t take care of them?

Jewel: I haven’t. The only animals that right now that I’m considering taking in is from a friend who passed away. So no I haven’t been exposed to that really at all.

Tammy: Okay. Let’s talk about…You got started in this through, I guess, 4-H or something.

Jewel: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Tammy: What is good about that? What can kids learn from that? I’ve heard a lot of really good stories about kids and pygmy goats and how those sort of programs, especially with the goats, can be really beneficial to the kids.

Jewel: Well just learning to care for an animal. Really almost any animal you could use that and apply it to. I think maybe some kids want a break from it, having an animal that stays outside, you don’t have to
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