WHY DOES THIS GOAT (THERE'S REALLY ONLY ONE) LIKE SPIDEY?

My guess would be that Spiderman likes to climb like goats. This particular one found a green chair at the St. Louis Zoo, the Children's Petting Zoo. He wouldn't stay there long, but for some reason he felt the need.

Our grandkids have loved the zoo and our annual trips there. They must be growing up though because the zoo lost out to Chuck E. Cheese's by a 2-1 vote earlier in the Spring.


From the puffins to the bears, especially active the day we attended, the train, the snakes, the butterfly house, the tiger, the naked ape (absent, along with the other big guys), even the food, any of the shows we happen to catch (which is rare) are all a good time. It really is a great zoo for young and old alike.

But the Children's Zoo is always a highlight. Inside they have a koala bear, timid and mostly hidden, ferret type merkers, frogs, guinea pigs (available for petting), turtles, foxes and a few others inside.

But as Simon and Garfunkel discovered years ago, "it's all happening at the (outside petting) zoo." I mean where else can you brush a goat? Watch a goat fight? Or pick out a favorite and spend some time with him? Or even brush the rear end of a goat while he poops as one of our grandsons did a few years ago. Chickens live there, too, and an occasional sheep is brought in, but normally the goats rule that part of the zoo.

The goat in the picture didn't sport the Spidey cap for long. It was put there by our grandson, Grant, and he needed it back. I wonder if it was the same goat he brushed rearward a few summers ago?