Goats' motivations are mostly to eat tasty tree bark and (some) other plants. Hardly incompetent or thoughtless, they're relentless if not contained.

I have three, and the only incompetence at play is when I accidentally don't contain them well enough. From my last event: https://fractaldragon.net/posts/2022-05-09_bloody_goats.html

Interesting read :-) With cats, apparently one can spray water on them when they're at the border to ones garden, and eventually, also when you aren't there, they still think they'll get water on themselves if they go outside the garden. So they don't -- a border has been created in their mind.

I wonder if that works with goats, instead of the gate? I guess not.

Maybe also doesn't work with smarter cats, hmm.

(I suppose it's not your boy in the video?)

> the stripped area can be bridged with thin shoots embedded into the bark on each end of the open wound

Didn't know, I was surprised to read that it actually worked :-)

I don't know if it would work on goats., They aren't fond of being rained on though, so maybe? They are really motivated however, and smart enough to figure it out.

The bridge grafting worked great! The tree never lost any leaves or flowers, now has plums on it. For what it's worth, the shoots I spliced are now brown on the outside like the regular bark.

And no, not my kid, but made me laugh.