Tennessee Fainting Goats & Myotonia

[JamesWhitehead]

The Web Wasteland directory of the dodgy listed the following site as a weird bestial fetish.

I'm sure it's perfectly innocent and a curious phenomenon of this breed:

http://www.rfaintingfarm.com/history.htm

"Myotonic means when they are frightened or excited they "lock up" and sometimes fall over (faint) very stiff. It does not hurt the goat and the effect only lasts for 10-15 seconds and goes away.  It is an over-simplification, but the chemicals which are rushed to humans' muscles and joints to prepare them for "fight or flight" are withheld in the Myotonic under exciting or frightful circumstances."

More about the condition here:

http://www.faintinggoat.com/myotonia.htm

Not strictly cryptozoology, I know. But critterly.

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[anne_of_28_days]

i used to know someone who had fainting goats. people thought it was hilarious, but i found it disturbing to watch them fall over in kind of a frozen seizure.

 

[JamesWhitehead]

Survival of the faintest?

I guess this means the Devil is a Creationist too! :shock:

 

[lkb3rd]

it's interesting to me that a race of goats who's reaction to stress is to fall over frozen, would survive at all.
usually running, or fighting if able, works better