Toothing, Interesting Pets

'Toothing' for Hi-Tech Sex with Strangers

That Oddly Enough story from Reuters sent me searching for "beginners guide toothing" -- not that I am personally interested, or even have the technology at the moment, mind you, but after all, communication is my profession. I was of course looking for A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO TOOTHING, and, as you can see, I found it.

But the second link was from New Zealand: Determining the age of a goat is easy to do for the first few years of its life. The procedure is called toothing a goat. As one might expect (but why?) the page features a link to the Beginners Guide to Goat Farming

For those of you hardy souls who are still reading this,

"Goat" is the common name for any of a number of species of ruminant, cloven-hoofed, horned animals constituting the genus Capra of the family Bovidae. They are of the sub-order Ruminant because they have a four-part stomach and chew their cud, much like a cow or deer. The female, or " doe," usually has smaller horns than the male and is often termed "goat" or "nanny goat." The young are called kids. The male goat is called a "buck," or colloquially, " billy goat."

Goats and sheep together make up the tribe Caprini, from which we get the term caprine. The goat is closely related to the sheep, but differs from it in that the tail is shorter and the hollow horns are long and directed upward, backward, and outward while those of the sheep are spirally twisted. Goats also have beards, unlike sheep, and differ further by the characteristic strong odor bucks (males) give off in the mating season. Goats are far more lively and curious than sheep and make interesting pets.

"Interesting" is, to my mind, a word that covers a multitude of, ah...

All of which reminds me: shower time.