bought a goat

yesterday I went to a huge animal market with Cheikh Diallo and we bought a young goat. He did some sewing work for me and in payment he wanted to have a pet goat.

The place was amazing. There were so many animals and they guys were bringing them to us, carrying them by one leg and showing us the teeth and eyes and the bellies, like they were already meat. Luckily the seller that we met at the gate was a cool one and he helped us to keep the situation calm.

We told him we wanted a young female and we were not going to slaughter her soon, so we cared about the health.

We had to be super patient until the sellers calmed downed and then we could look around calmly. For us what was important was the personality, because she will be a pet. So wee needed to see the animals when they were not hanging by a leg.

My friend told them I was a goat farmer from Germany and had many goats to avoid them telling me bullshit. One guy still told us that if we took the pregnant one he guaranteed that it would have twin male babies.

The one we chose is really nice, a small black and white girl, around 5 months old
She was very courageous. Many of them were just in a stoned panic and others were going crazy, running away from us. This one is curious and only acts scared when there is a real danger. Now she is at Cheikh's place, in the yard with the mama sheep and her baby.

Goats are a lot smarter than sheep, I bet she has already started to cause a lot of trouble, like eating the side of the house or something. She eats peanut plant leaves.

There is no much tradition here of naming animals but when Cheikh's neighbour saw the goat she said it must have his family name and she wanted us to give her the name of her daughter, so now the goat is called Senabu Diallo.

Sadly, I couldn't take a camera to the animal market, it would have been chaos. The sellers are super intense and with a big camera we never could ahve negotiated a decent price. Finally the goat cost 20,000 CFA which is the normal price here. (15,000 - 30,000) but we had to be very tuff to get this price and I started to get nervous because we had to pretend that we were going to leave the goat and go home. I didn't want to leave her once we had selected her so I really had to hope the guys were going to crack and allow us to pay the price we wanted to pay. Finally all 3 of us were lucky.

i think I will try to take her to the beach today.