Man’s Best Friend: Three goats and Dusty

By Daneka Hill

Feb 3, 2022

On Australia Day our roving reporter ran into Dusty and owner Shane Anderson on Nagambie’s main street. After a few questions, we unravelled a story about his three goats back home.

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What is Dusty?

He’s a blue heeler through and through. We came down to see what the go was for Australia Day but they had a ‘no dogs’ sign.

Bluey: Dusty is a proper big-headed blue heeler with a sedate personality. Photo by Daneka Hill

Any other pets back home?

I’ve got a goat called Shithead.

How’d he get that name?

He used to stick his head between you legs from behind, hook his horns around and pull you back. Even at the vet’s he’s on paper as Shithead.

Evil eyes: The infamous ‘Shithead’ looking appropriately foreboding under the trees. The goat also gets called ‘the unicorn’ after he lost one of his horns. Photo by Shane Anderson

How did you get a goat?

We’re on a few acres out at Kirwans Bridge and he was a rescue. Well, we didn’t know much about goats at first but we learned they are social animals so we got two more, Garry and Barry. I think Shithead was acting out so much because he had no-one.

What type of goats?

Not sure. They are tiny, so a sort of miniature I’m sure.