Many breeds of animals are herd animals and what that means is that they will stick together as a pack or herd as a defense mechanism against danger. It is harder for a predator to attack a group of animals than it is one single animal. Here on the farm we have three kinds of animals that fall into that category. Horses, sheep and goats. So it's not surprising to look out my window and see all the horses grazing near each other in one side of the pasture, or the sheep flocking together while they foraged, or the goats moving from one tasty weed to the next as a group. What I don't see too often are all three groups herding together as one. Let alone one animal leaving it's herd to join a different herd. Especially if that herd is of a different species.
That was until Caesar. The billy goat who thinks he's a horse. It's not unusual for me to find him in the pasture grazing with the horses rather than with the other goats or even the sheep. Nope, in his mind he is a great big and powerful animal and his place is with the other great big and powerful animals in the pasture.
It's not until long after the other goats and sheep have vacated the pasture that he notices them missing.
He might look around curiously for them.
But then it's back to where he belongs.
With his herd.
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