Man's Second Best Friend

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November/December 1970
 
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Many crib deaths are due to allergy to cow milk proteins. Cow milk allergy is quite common. I have it myself to some extent. I'm not smart enough to remember which of the proteins cause this but the English authors know. And then, goat milk is alkaline whereas cow milk is acid. And goat milk has more mineral salts.

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Goat milk has a much lower bacterial count than cow milk. Very much less. So you don't have to pasteurize goat milk. And of course, once cow milk gets to the dairy, the dairy employs lots of ingenuity to make sure that all of the good things in cows milk are extracted. So what you get out of Safeway is a little bit better than colored water. Listen, if you'd seen what I've seen and know what I know, you'd never touch cow milk.

Goat cheese is not only superior to cow cheese in all the departments mentioned above but it does not, to my knowledge, decay.

And then you have Mohair, which comes from goats—real genuine mohair that is. And Moroccan leather comes from goats. Everybody else in the world loves goats. Why don't you Americans dig goats? I don't know. I just don't know. I don't know if it's stupidity or if it's because you love to squander.

Anyway, I, assuming an unbending attitude, cheerfully salute the goat. Oh. Somebody (my wife) just asked how come goat's milk stinks. Mismanagement, that's why.

Among the mammals, see, milk is produced only when the female is or has been pregnant. And, when a male approaches a lactating female, certain odorous chemicals are released into the milk. This is true for humans. Caress your wife while she's nursing a baby and the baby will wrinkle it's face. So. To keep goat milk from smelling, segregate the bucks from the lactating does. And wash off the udder. Keep the hair clipped back. Stuff like that.

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  • May Lattanzio 1/7/2009 6:19:28 PM

    Sorry - I disagree w/the part that goats can't be housebroken.
    I lived in the California desert, and the flies were so bad, my goat was milked in the kitchen. When that was done, she would always tiptoe through the house, checking the rooms and come back to the kitchen to be let out. Never had an accident. She, by the way, was a rescue.

    We used to take long walks - she was kept with our donkey. Donkey on a leadline, Flopsy following, and our German Shepherd off lead, taking up the rear.

    And sometimes a raven on my shoulder. (I was also doing raven rehab.)

    Wonderful memories.

    I am currently goatless, but would love to find an Alpine/Nubian cross or two. My Flopsy made wonderful mozzarella.

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