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ANIMALS - Goats - Cash & Meera
Cash
Meera
Cash & MeeraOur names are Cash and Meera. We are a breed of goat called cashmere. We are very elegant and special goats. In the summer we have smooth short hair but as summer ends and the days get longer, we will grow a long, luxuriously soft coat of silky white hair that will keep us warm. Then in the spring as the days get longer and the weather gets warmer, our long hair will fall out and we will have our sleek short coats again so we will be cool. Some people use our long winter hair to make sweaters and blankets because it is so soft and warm.
We are brother and sister and came from a farm that couldn’t take care of us anymore. We really didn’t have enough shelter and our feet didn’t get the attention that a goat’s feet need. Each toe on our hooves has an outer shell like your fingernails and just like your fingernails, our hooves keep growing if they are not trimmed. Our hooves grew so much that they started turning up like elves’ shoes. This made it hard for us to walk normally and was quite painful. When we got to the sanctuary, though, our new mom began trimming our hooves regularly and now we feel much better. She also gave us the medicine we needed to keep us strong and to keep us from getting sick. We love it here at the sanctuary and will never, ever leave. Well, gotta go back to work…we’re working on growing a lot of beautiful cashmere hair and trying to find someone who will make it into a sweater for our Mom!
