Lilly and Robin
However life was before, now it is paradise
The dwarf goats Lilly and Robin have been living at Gut Aiderbichl Deggendorf's Begegnungshof for two months. The goats were confiscated, we do not know too much about their previous life.
In principle, anyone can keep goats, because goat keeping does not require any special permits or personal requirements. The general legal requirements of the Animal Welfare Act (§2) must be observed, which means the following: goat keeping must be species-appropriate, the diet must meet the needs. All in all, the keeping of the two should not have been appropriate to the species at all.
... and also the little Fienchen is very healthy
The keepers must have noticed that Lilly was restless that morning, she was not eating and wanted to have her rest. This is exactly how goats behave when the birth is approaching.
Little Fienchen is brown-white and black spotted, and so the brown coat color of the mom and the black-white coat of the dad are united in the little kid. Lilly proudly presents her offspring, tenderly nudging Fienchen here and there with her nose. With loving, shining eyes, Lilly communicates with her baby, who is always hungry. No problem, because Lilly has enough milk.
Goats show their feelings by bleating in different ways, and so does Lilly. At the moment she has the happiest bleating in the wide world, because she got two things in her life: together with her Robin she now lives in safety, has enough to eat and many conspecifics. The birth of her Fienchen is a sign of happiness in the life of Lilly and Tobin, so to speak also a sign of a new beginning.
When you visit our animals at the Begegnungshof in Deggendorf - stop and listen where soft, gentle bleating comes from - there live Lilly, Robin and their Fienchen.
Love does not consist in looking at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint Exupéry
