Crochet Me Crazy

Today was the day we had to take the goat Alison is showing up to the show barn and have him validated and tagged, etc. Poor little guy...we didn't know that tipping his horns and tagging him would be so bad. We're new to all this stock show stuff. We went down there and filled out our paper work and they gave us our tags and then we stood around like idiots for awhile because we didn't know anybody or who was supposed to tag the goat for us. Well, we saw the county agent...about the only one we know...and he and 2 other guys came over and they pulled the goat out of the pin and "tipped" his horns and tagged him before we knew it. It was less than 5 minutes. They disappeared rather quickly after that and the goat's horns started spurting blood out everwhere! Luckily, one guy stayed back long enough to tell us to pack some dirt on the end of his horns to stop the bleeding when we got home. We're left standing there with this goat shooting blood everywhere. We weren't going to wait till we got home so I'm holding the end of his horns to try to stop it from shooting out everywhere while we're trying to get some dirt to put on it. We stood with him and got it stopped. We were kinda shocked and I guess kinda stupid that we didn't know that would happen. I thought their horns would be kinda like clipping fingernails. None of us had any idea that would be like that. Well, I guess we're getting our education. I'm hoping the trauma for this goat is over now. Alison started feeding him today to start fattening him up and he's calmed down a little bit already. They definately love that show goat food. There were some very pretty goats up there at the barn today. This will be a good experience for Alison. I hope nothing happens to that goat! Alison has spent $90 so far on the goat and we haven't paid a dime of it. She's paying for this herself.