The Trials of Mama Goat

While Rex is eating his daily ration, the goats have taken to sneaking in the round pen and checking it out, and often having a snack. Jeremy has then taken to getting out the BB gun and shooting at the goats. I'm not sure why, but he recently dug out the 0.22 and started shooting near the goats...just to scare them off. The other day, he was doing this and apparently mama goat was behind a tumbleweed, he didn't see her and accidentally shot her. He got her in the right hind leg about at the joint. It went right through. He says it's not life threatening and has been doctoring her; putting the animal equivalent of neosporin on it and wrapping it up. She has come out of the goat house and is eating and getting around, although she's been favoring that leg. We'll probably have a lame goat now. I told Jeremy to put the 0.22 away and just use the BB gun....we'll see what happens.