ACCOMAC, Va. — Winter has been so cruel this year that many baby goats are being brought indoors, which presents its own set of problems.

Take, for example, Snoopy, a newborn kid owned by Billie Blackwell, who’s been raising goats for 30 years and never had brought one indoors before. For every five ounces of milk Snoopy is bottle-fed, she seems to produce at least 20 ounces of liquid out her other end.

For the time being, Snoopy sleeps in a big cardboard box and sits in Blackwell’s lap like a puppy. But the future is of concern.

Snoopy has become accustomed to the warm house and might not do well living outside February and he’s growing faster than spring’s arrival.

“He can’t stay in here too much longer,” Blackwell told Del Marva Now.Com. “They just get rambunctious — they want to butt on everything. They want to chew on everything.”

Blackwell says the passage from Ecclesiastes about a time to be born, a time to plant and a time to heal needs an addition:

“There’s a time to have goats and a time not to have goats.”

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