Officially For Sale and Cassidy's Big News by Charlotte!

Charlotte here! Well it's official. I will soon be a motherless doe. Yes, they're selling my little Bradley!!! He's still little and young! Only 4 months old! Ohhhhhhhh the pain!!!
Gennavieve, Annie, Starlene, Hosea, and Brownie were all put in the city's paper a couple days ago. And THEN those five PLUS the additions of Bradley and Cocoa were sent out in an e-mail as goats for sale! to a yahoo group my goat mothers' family takes part. This is soooooo depressing. How could they? I mean yes, they do own 20 goats...but we can't be that much trouble! Seven of us are being sold....that leaves only 13 left. As hard as it is for me to admit this...I will miss every single one of them with my whole heart!! (especially my Bradley!! (sniff, sniff) ). Oh well. What has to be done, has to be done.
On a more serious note, Cassidy is looking very ill today. All she does is go around moping with sagging eyes and weak legs saying, "Uhhhhh! I feel so aweful for some odd reason!".  She lays down all the time, paws the ground, and then gives BIG yawns - I mean, did she get any sleep last night? When the goat mother came out this morning to let us out of our pen, she inspected Cassidy quite a bit. She felt her back end, looked at her udder, felt her stomach  - and then she said...."Cassidy, it looks like you're going to kid today!".   WHAMMMMM!!!! You have got to be kidding me?! She barely has a stomach and doesn't even have an udder yet. Well, see I figured out that's the problem. By over hearing my goat mother talking to herself, I have now come to understand what is wrong. Cassidy is pregnant. Her ligaments are gone, she's pawing the ground, yawning all the time, laying down and getting up - all the signs are there except that she just doesn't have a full udder yet. THAT'S WHAT'S WORRYING THE GOAT MOTHER. Something is not right. Although she did say that sometimes the udder doesn't form until RIGHT before she kids or even afterwards. Apparently she's worried that they baby inside could be premature. Never the less, Cassidy should kid sometime today - we will all see what happens....can't wait!