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Help.....my goat keeps jumping on the cars! Any suggestions?
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We had one that would jump on a car anytime it was parked. Put the goat in another pasture or have a BBQ. 
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| Oh, this is funny! As the Hobby Farms board was loading I glanced out the window and noticed Martok, my new future Nubian buck (he's 6 weeks old) tap dancing on our car (fortunately, a car now well past its prime). Is your goat a kid? The good news is that kids usually outgrow their car-climbing phase. Most of our bottle babies have engaged in car and truck climbing but as adults, none of them do it. In the meanwhile you'll have to pen up the goat or the car. Seriously, when our car was newer, we kept it inside of a 'pen' constructed of cattle panels, because we've never found anything to dissuade kids from climbing. Sue
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I'm attached so a BBQ is not an option, Yet.
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The goat that is jumping on the cars is a year old. The others are pygmies so they can't jump that high. I hope he grows out of it soon, because we like to take them out of the pens to walk around the yard and hang out with us. We were thinks of using a dog shock collar, but not sure if that will work or if appropriate.
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| Actually, the shock collar would work. I've never used one but know a number of people who have used them as a last resort to train goats not to jump up on them and it's worked quite well. If you use one, yell "off!" or a similar command and then count to three or so before activating the collar. Pretty soon when the goat hears "off!" he'll quickly respond, then you'll know you don't need the collar any longer. Maybe my goats stopped at a younger age because most of them are Boers and they bulked up at an early age. This Nubian buckling who is currently into car-climbing is very, very agile, so he might not outgrow it as quickly. :o/ Sue
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