Why the army?

On the one hand I can appreciate the comic effect of the fainting goats, I've watched them on YouTube as well, but on the other this ignorance does annoy me.

Obviously the person who originally posted the above believes that the staring men can actually influence the goats into fainting and is totally ignorant of the existence of a latent myopathy within the animal.

Type of Myotonia: Becker's

Country: England

I watched the trailer for the movie and the goats collapse like they've been tranquilized. Their legs aren't stiff like you'd see with the myotonic goats when they're startled.

However after raising goats for many years I can attest to the fact that they are extremely sensitive animals - for instance they will often just keel over and die if they're in much pain. I wish mine had been more susceptible to psychic influences...if so I might have been able to keep them from hiding under the milkstand, escaping and eating the neighbors' rose bushes and jumping on the roofs of cars!

Jan

Type of Myotonia: Thomsen's

Country: US