Comments on: Fainting Goats https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/fainting-goats/ Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005 Thu, 06 Jan 2022 01:04:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: JarvisLoop https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/fainting-goats/#comment-74342 Thu, 06 Jan 2022 01:04:06 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=69#comment-74342 Kudos to Kiwi.

I saw an item on television several years ago that showed a dog with the same condition.

]]> By: halifornia https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/fainting-goats/#comment-25551 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:31:44 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=69#comment-25551 As ChickenHead stated, at some point a breeder identified the trait, and bred for it. Once it bred true these goats became conversation pieces for the rich and idle. Whether or not they were also used as “easy prey” when flocks were attacked by predators, I cannot verify.

]]> By: DanThinksDances&femaleGspot https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/fainting-goats/#comment-22299 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:33:50 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=69#comment-22299 Enter your reply text here. OK

///////////////////////////////////As far as I can tell, most people breed these varmints mostly to snap open umbrellas at them, and watch as they scatter like bowling pins./////////////////////////

Stupid inept internet. VIDEO is gone. (personal view of internet / waiting for the second generation of internet to come along, being developed by professors & private industry)

Is the above mentioning the teasing and laughing at animals? ahh…. no good.

Good read.

]]> By: kiwi532 https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/fainting-goats/#comment-21723 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:56:13 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=69#comment-21723 They are just goats with narcolepsy.

]]> By: Merciless https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/fainting-goats/#comment-15391 Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:19:00 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=69#comment-15391 That video is to funny. My family and I have goats of different breeds but have never heard, let alone seen this one. Can’t wait to show them. Another funny looking goat is the “LaMancha,” known for being bread earless. Pretty funny looking at first, but not nearly like these fainting goats. Damn Hilarious!

]]> By: Zamemee https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/fainting-goats/#comment-9450 Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:58:07 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=69#comment-9450 I have never heard of them being breed for food for circus animals, but I have heard that they were originally breed so that they could be put in with a flock of sheep to act as easy prey should a predator attack the flock.

]]> By: ChickenHead https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/fainting-goats/#comment-9258 Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:26:22 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=69#comment-9258 CauselessEffect said: “Hilarious! I saw some video footage of this on Animal Planet once! I really wonder what the purpose of this defense mechanism is and why the gene’s carriers have not been wiped out? Apparently God must have a sense of humor.”

When a bunch of breeders find the trait useful (or down right funny), then they’ll selectively breed to keep it in the species.

You don’t have to look any farther than domesticated canines to see such a thing in action. Serious, a chihuahua? What possible advantage (of any kind) do they have? Yet they survive in great masses. :)

]]> By: tazman https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/fainting-goats/#comment-6643 Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:39:45 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=69#comment-6643 Hahahaha

I love the video :)

]]> By: CauselessEffect https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/fainting-goats/#comment-6387 Mon, 19 Jun 2006 04:45:28 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=69#comment-6387 Hilarious! I saw some video footage of this on Animal Planet once! I really wonder what the purpose of this defense mechanism is and why the gene’s carriers have not been wiped out? Apparently God must have a sense of humor.

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