Each winter, Karl Schatz and Margaret Hathaway, owners of Ten Apple Farm in Gray, host goat hikes on their 18-acre property.
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Fair game: Children attracted to animals, amusements
FRYEBURG — The sixth day of the 168th Fryeburg Fair on Friday featured something that was missing the first five days: sunshine. With no rain and no clouds in sight, the fair was particularly busy Friday morning, with thousands of people on the grounds by 10 a.m. For some families, the game booths were more […]
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Animal Tales: For boy with allergies, goats could not be better pets
Gabriel Munroe, 9, of Auburn plays recently with his goats in his backyard. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) AUBURN — When it became clear that Gabriel Munroe was deathly allergic to cats and dogs, he and his family were devastated. They found new homes for two dogs and three cats, but Gabriel, then 5, needed some kind […]
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Goats are drawn to happy people
Goats get a lot of love on the Internet. They get less in the pages of animal cognition journals. The darlings of such research tend to be primates, whales, dolphins, dogs and horses. Goats, on the other hand, “are not considered to be the smartest cookies,” said Christian Nawroth, an agricultural scientist at the Leibniz […]
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Christopher A. Cousins
HARRISON — Christopher Andrew Cousins, 42, of South Paris died suddenly Aug. 15. He was a beloved family man, respected journalist and Oxford Hills Viking for life. Born May 18, 1976, to Timothy Cousins and Ellie Frechette in Willimantic, Connecticut, he was a true Mainer by nature, if not by birth. He became a Maine resident […]
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Herd on the streets: Professional goats take over Boise neighborhood
And so, with those disclaimers out of the way, we now bring you a news story about dozens of goats that briefly took over a neighborhood in Boise, Idaho – and Twitter along with it. The goats turned up early Friday in a residential neighborhood on the city’s western side There were dozens of them […]
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'They're kind of mesmerizing': Goats draw spectators to overgrown park
WASHINGTON — He almost didn’t see them at first. A crowd of people standing along his usually clear jogging route up Eastern Avenue, straddling the Washington-Maryland border, tipped him off that something was up. Following their gaze into a small clearing of overgrown trees and wild flora, he saw something move. “I thought it was […]
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Great story about goats
Reading the story “Gray goats and hikers make up ‘herd’” (Forecaster story, reprinted in the Sun Journal Jan. 21) brought back memories of the 1980s. I was walking with my goats in the woods in the evening. It started getting dark so I headed for home. I got to a fork and couldn’t remember which […]
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Gray goats and hikers make up a herd
GRAY — A winter hike at Ten Apple Farm is similar to other snowy woodland adventures in Maine – except for the goats. Farm owners Margaret Hathaway and Karl Schatz host a series of seasonal goat hikes on their 18 acres in Gray, allowing visitors to learn more about the animals while exploring the woods […]
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Raymond woman, 2 goats unhurt after Vermont crash
GUILFORD, Vt. (AP) — Vermont State Police say a Maine woman and two goats that were riding in her car were unhurt when she crashed after falling asleep while traveling on an interstate in Guilford. Rescue crews were called to the one-vehicle crash at about 6 a.m. Wednesday. Police say the northbound car driven by […]