The last few months I have been busy,  as you may know if your reading this I am an Animal Ambassador with Exotics-R-Us, we are an Exotic Animal Education Institute and spend our time teaching others about animal husbandry, conservation, and sharing lives with animals of all kinds. I wouldn't call myself an exotic animal, being I am a Myotonic goat and we are said to actually be the only goats Native to N. America. Of course that depends on who you ask and where you look. I wouldn't say we originated in the midwest for sure but who knows. I am very fortunate to have the friends and family around me that support me daily and help me help others and show that even us Handi-can animals can go and do what others do everyday and live happy healthy lives and be a VIP Super Star like myself. After all, at our programs I get front row and attention the entire time. Check out our Facebook and also my own personal one if you like. 

So today I got to go to the actual UMKC downtown campus and meet Dr. Antonis P. Stylianou. It was all very fast. We arrived, went to the lab and he used this thing that looks kind of like a hand held register scanner you see at the store and took images of both my leg and my hoof amputations. I wasn't nervous at all. I think he and my mom were more so than me. I can't wait to see how this all works out and will be continuing to post updates. Below is picture of me at campus today.
​Watch out world this Goaty Goat Goat will be walking again on my own before you know it!

Im dating this post March 1st because March is when the communications all started to happen and my life turned taking a whole new route on March 11th one of my moms Crystal Harris had been speaking to Chuck on my behalf and now Jane Vogel tells her that they have found a doctor that wants to help me. Over the next few months communications continue and I am connected with Dr. Antonis P. Stylianou, Ph.D current  Director, Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Research Laboratory at UMKC. 
​I am told, if he can, he will not only make me a leg but a hoof and that he doesn't think I should have to wait until I am full grown, he wants to help me now, so I can grow with my prosthetics and not have deterioration of muscles and bones in the meantime. He also says that if I wear them out or when I'm full grown and out grow them, he will make me new ones. I am going to walk on my own again!

What happens Next...
Over the next few weeks Chuck and his wife make me a priority. He called and researched and talked to many people about my condition. He was determined to find a way for me to take my next "steps" in life in as timely a fashion as possible. Without Chuck I would not have the opportunities I have today. We all THANK HIM so much for seeing and believing and looking any and everywhere he could for help for me. 

Today is the day I tried on my first wheel cart. Today I took off all around the house. Then the driveway. Tomorrow the yard and everywhere else. I was Wagging my tail the whole time. Yay I can walk. I still need a boot as I don't want to scrape my nub. Thank you Randy Spaw for my first wheels and all you make for me in the future. 
Below is video of my first time in my first set of wheels!


Over the next few months I am still a Happy goat. I am growing healthy and fast. With my growth, one week I am more tall, next more wide, or long, I start to outgrow my wheels. My humans are all fashioning me different designs.

On the afternoon of Sept 5, 2015, about an hour after my wet bandage on my hind hoof/tendon was changed as it has been everyday every 4-6 hours for the last month, my foot falls off. There really is no other way to describe it. Sorry. It was shocking, but my hoof had seemed to have seized over the last few weeks and my doctor felt the tendon was not regrowing. I went straight to him when this happened. My body had taken control, made the decision I didn't need this hoof anymore and discarded it. A new healing and daily wrap started today as I know have a stump.
Over the next few months while my stump is healing, callousing, etc. I still get wraps. I start to get socks, shoes, boots etc. so I can be level and hold myself up. Loosing my hoof was hard. It is another challenge I deal with daily; But my body knew I didn't need it and would be able to heal better without it.

Today I show up for surgery. My leg could not be reattached and the bone on my upper thigh is jagged from my attack. Dr. Kolich smooths the edges and stitches me up so that as I grow I can heal and not have pain from the inside out. He wasn't sure I would make it, a surgery for a goat my age chances are not really in my favor. But guess what, I am still here!
I successfully make it through surgery. I have a few other cuts, scratches etc and no rear leg, but my stitches are good. My next challenge is my other hind leg, my tendon is damaged where my hoof connects and we are not sure if it will heal. With my healing I can not return outside to my Mama, Doctor says infection is to great a risk. My human moms don't skip a beat and in the house I go. They will have to monitor me, feed me, and change my dressing every few hours for however long weeks, months, it takes my tendon to heal.
Going home I don't want to eat. Im taken outside to try and nurse off Mama. It doesn't work out. I don't like the bottle though either, but I must drink my milk to keep my bones strong and be a healthy happy goat.
Mama doesn't like that I'm being moved inside. She paces and cries for me. I get to see her but it started to get to where it was harder and harder every time I was with her for her to handle me being taken away. For my moms sake my human moms found 2 young goats that were no longer nursing but needed a mama. Their names are Coal and Tegan and still live with her. We call them my adopted brothers.

I'm two weeks old August 11, 2015. I'm a happy, hoppy, frolicking baby goat and my life turns a whole new direction on this day. I'm starting this blog to share my story. This day is hard for all of us to look back on but its the beginning of my struggles and my successes. In the early morning I was sleeping out by the fence and a wild coyote grabbed my hind leg and tried to pull me through the fence. My Mama saved my life. She got me away from the fence and did what any good mom could. She cleaned me up and comforted me until she was able to get help of my human moms. Mama Jenn, Sarah and Dani did the best they knew also and I was taken to my vet Dr. Dean Kolich immediately. The conclusion made was that there was no chance for saving my leg. At this point, since goats are prone to stress and do not handle it well, I should of already lost my life. But I didn't cry or even frown. My moms comforted me and I knew everything was going to be ok. Surgery was scheduled for the next morning. If I made it through the night it was thought I could make it though the surgery. Obviously by reading this, you see, I am still here.
​My name is Mimosa and I am a goaty goat goat that can do anything!

My name is Mimosa and this is me just a few hours after I was born. My Mama had me underneath a Mimosa tree. It's her favorite tree to eat leaves from so naturally I was named Mimosa. Mama is my Goat mom; but actually I have many moms. I am blessed to have been taken in by my human moms. I would not be here today if it were not for each one of these ladies: Sarah Erickson, Danielle Post, Felicia Campfield, Jennifer Kasserman, Crystal Harris and Crystal Kincaid THANK YOU FOR LOVING AND BELIEVING IN ME! My life is also filled with many others that love and support me. Im starting this blog to share my story so far and to be able to update everyone as I continue to progress forward. 
I am a "Goaty Goat Goat" and am here to show everyone that miracles can and do happen!