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Rescue goats dress to impress
11/1/2025 | 2m 9sVideo has Closed Captions
Rescued Nigerian Dwarf goats from Goat Walkabouts strutted in colorful costumes at the Fall Shindig.
Goat Walkabouts rescues goats and brings them to assisted-living and memory-care facilities, offering comfort and joy to people with Alzheimer’s, dementia, PTSD, and other challenges.
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Rescue goats dress to impress
11/1/2025 | 2m 9sVideo has Closed Captions
Goat Walkabouts rescues goats and brings them to assisted-living and memory-care facilities, offering comfort and joy to people with Alzheimer’s, dementia, PTSD, and other challenges.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipThis is the Fall Shindig at SonFlower Ranch, and we do this at some events sometimes, where we just kind of bring out the goats, dress them up in silly costumes, and call it a pageant... have them parade around.
It makes people smile, makes people laugh, gets them interested in, like, “Hey, what is going on over there with this goat in a tutu?” It's very... it's really cute and everybody loves it.
So Goat Walkabouts is a nonprofit and these guys live here at SonFlower Ranch.
They're rescue goats.
And the main mission of Goat Walkabouts is to take goats to assisted-living memory care facilities.
They're really therapeutic for Alzheimer's patients.
Volunteers are welcome to join us at those events as well.
It's a really cool experience to see just how these... these seniors come alive with the goats and remember stories from their past and generally are like more engaged than they usually would be.
Dressing them up is always fun, sometimes challenging.
Sometimes they're stubborn, always hard to keep the hat on the head.
But overall, that's always a kind of challenge that I enjoy, dressing up the goat.
Why not?
It's actually... it's easier than a dog, so I will say that.
It was pretty fun.
It's hard getting their... their legs off the ground ‘cause some are a little stout.
You just put tutus on them.
One's wearing a hat.
They're wearing wings.
It was fun.
They were really rambunctious.
And they were hard to, like, get to, like, cooperate.
But they were fun.
I guess a fun fact I know is they have four stomachs.
Like a cow, I believe.
So sometimes you'll see a big, fat goat and think it's pregnant, but it's actually a male and it just has full stomachs.
I guess like for me it was just learning that they had as much personality as they do, and it really does differ from goat to goat.
Honestly, I'm pretty obsessed with the one with the hat, especially when it's on straight.
That's kind of my vibe.

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