Goats in Girdles

Recently, some of our favorite goat clients that live way out in the country stopped by the veterinary hospital.  They are lovely woman who love their goats and are on top of their game when it comes to providing the best care for them.  Their goat had a healthy baby doeling (a baby female goat kid) and for the past few months the two of them have been living the happiest of lives.  But now...the time had arrived to wean the doeling off her mother's milk.  Most people will separate them by taking the baby out of the sight of the mother.  Without a doubt, this is stressful for both the mother and kid and, for that matter, some concerned and loving goat owners.  Our clients said that they had spent hours online searching for ideas to make the weaning process as easy on everyone as possible.  They found an idea which lead them to the local thrift store in town where they picked out a pair of ladies underwear for their momma goat.  The idea was to dress momma in these thrift store unmentionables in order to hide her teats so the doeling would be unable to drink her milk and they wouldn't have to be separated.  Nice and Easy!   Back at ranch they went and dressed momma in her new undergarments and set the new Victoria Secret's model loose in the barnyard.  The hungry little doeling didn't find this fashion show amusing and snatched a mouthful of lingerie and pulled them off, tossing them into the mud.  Famished from the strip tease the baby doeling went back to mom and had some milk. 
Our clients realized that this idea was silly.  How could underwear possibly work being so easy to take off?  They needed something else, something more secure.  They went back into town and came back to the ranch with a... girdle.  They squeezed momma in the girdle, tightened it up and sent her waddling back into the barnyard.  The hungry little doeling declared war on the girdle.  She  fought bravely as she battled the against the garment until finally, it was conquered and lay in the mud.  She won back her mother's teat and toasted to her own victory with her prized milk. 
After the battle of the girdle, our defeated clients decided to come into the office for our advice.  They didn't know what else to do.  They couldn't bear to separate the little family but they knew the doeling had to be weaned off of momma.  After hearing all of their failed attempts I had to admit I didn't have a good answer for them.  I was thinking "Well, if a girdle didn't work what else possibly could?" I did what I normally do at work when I can't answer a question...I ask the professionals...the veterinarian.  I explained the situation and was sure he would either cross his eyebrows, scratch his head or just have a long pause before he spoke but the answer came without hesitation.  "Just put them in pens next to each other where the doeling can't stick her head in and nurse off her momma."   With that he continued to walk into his office. 
The three of us just sort of looked at each other and then just sort of nodded our heads at each other.  They thanked me for all of my help and were off to the hardware to buy planks instead of panties.

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