Goat Walkabouts Volunteer Day! (Shindig Day 1)

MEETING LOCATION:

SONFLOWER RANCH

15445 Powhaton Rd #8804,

Brighton, CO 80603

ABOUT THIS MEETUP:

It's that time again for the Sonflower Ranch fall shindig! Goat Walkaouts and our affiliates are so excited to present our new paddocks at SFR! We will be allowing all friends to visit our herd and feed them some goats snacks.

All the proceeds from snack sales and donations go towards the Goat Walkabouts organization which is a 501c3 nonprofit org on a mission to rescue goats, integrate them into therapy and mitigate wildfire in natural habititats located in urban areas.

This is a great cause with a great mission! Join us this weekend helps us monitor the following interactions.

1. Open Herd Exhibition: Assist guests with goats and make sure the interaction is safe!
2. Goat Pageant: Assisted kids in dressing up the goats for a pageant!
3. Running of the Goats!: Assist the goats in dressing up in costume for a run down the strip while we cheer them on!

The shindig is two days, Saturday and Sunday from 10am - 4pm. You can volunteer for the day or half the day. We appreciate your help no matter what!

The Sonflower Ranch shindig is such a fun experience and this is a great way to provide service work in your community. We look forward to having you join!

Goat Walkabouts

GOAT WALKABOUTS MISSION STATEMENT:

“Goats Walkabouts is on a mission to provide goat hikes and goat walks as a form of animal assisted activities and animal assisted therapy to those who struggle with PTSD, Post War Veterans, those who have intellectual disabilities, those who are in recovery, and many others while offering the often held captive caprine species an opportunity to graze in freedom and explore in an ecosystem that resembles their natural and indigenous habitat.”

ABOUT GOAT WALKABOUTS ADVOCACY MEETINGS:

Goat Walkabouts is a Nigerian Dwarf goat hiking program that has an emphasis on PTSD recovery. Humans have hurting hearts and we have herds that have heavenly hooves to guide you and anyone else right to bliss. We just need everyone to know about it!

The program began as a therapy resource for the PTSD community but it is growing beyond. There are many places we want to visit because the goats are just that great! We want to visit senior homes because we've found that some of the elderly population have never even seen a goat! Wow! We want to hike with more PTSD survivors and anyone who thinks they can benefit!

We would like more advocates to be involved to train with the goats and grow the program with us through awareness raisers like Goat Parades around local lakes and parks with the goats. Imagine being a part of a goat parade and it is for a great cause!

This is great for the goats because goats are migratory animals. They are meant to migrate from place to place and eat lots of vegetation that is in season. Most goats never get to explore anything because they are stuck on a farm but we aim to change that. These goats are amazing and deserve to migrate so we hike our herds with the humans that need it most.

PTSD recovery is in demand and we have an incredible resource with our goat companions! Therapy comes in all forms and we have found an incredibly special resource.

Please join us and let's send a message to everyone together as a herd!

WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW TO VIEW A GOAT WALKABOUT!

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