Tiny Pumpkin is officially free!!! Yes, out of quarantine, out of the isolation and monotony of her stall--after only a week, baby goat Pumpkin is free!! (A week's quarantine was largely a formality, as Pumpkin had lived alone for virtually her entire life, so her risk of carrying a virus or infectious disease was minimal)

We've not yet introduced her to Zen--we hope this match will work--instead, we simply opened her stall door today...and out she walked, then trotted, then galloped, then leaped for joy, then in celebration of her goatness, raced Walt to the end of the barn, boomaranged off the end of the barn, and high-tailed it back to the far end...150 feet away!!

"COME ON, PUMPKIN!!!!" Walt hollered. And the little goat KNEW IT WAS A GAME!! She FLOORED IT, racing Walt, leaping over a bale of hay, leaping over a hose draped over the aisle--why miss a chance to show off?!!--back and forth they charged...until she gave out of gas, veered right into her stall, gulped a mouthful of hay, announcing "I'm done, but that was FUN!!!"

To simply be an observer at Catskill Animal Sanctuary is a wonderful thing.