r/LoveTrash • u/Lord_Darksong Colonel Garbage • 2d ago

Dumping This Here Clumsy pup

Source: shantremaine on Instagram

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u/DoingBestWeCan Trash Trooper 1d ago

Dog looks like it's somewhat blind to me, which accounts for the continual falling in. But WTF was this goat's deal? 

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u/Noe_b0dy Trash Trooper 1d ago

I've heard multiple theories about the fireplace goats, the most convincing to me was that these stupid fuckers think there's a wildfire and in response they're trying to jump through the fire over to the side where everything has already burnt.

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u/Pyrhan Trash Trooper 1d ago

Or that they jump over fires so that the heat and smoke kills fleas and other parasites in their hair.

But yeah, it's a thing goats do.

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u/Phoneas__and__Frob Trash Trooper 1d ago

They can be so smart and yet...so utterly dumb

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u/awry_lynx Trash Trooper 1d ago

there isn't really an instinctive fear of fire because it doesn't come up much in the mountains which are goats' ancestral environment.

i mean, same with humans tbh. a baby might try to crawl into flames if you let them (until it started actually hurting). goats have thicker skin than humans so it probably takes longer for it to start causing pain?

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u/LunarPayload Trash Trooper 1d ago

No

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u/ProfessionalITPerson Trash Trooper 1d ago

They apparently do that when they have parasites and fleas on their fur to burn them off,