That’s not your kid! Hilarious moment newborn baby goat snuggles up with a giant tortoise at Texas petting zoo
- James and Kelly Peeler went to check on a baby goat at their mobile petting zoo
- Footage shows giant tortoise ‘Uncle Ike’ snuggling up to the friendly newborn
- The video was recorded at Jim’s Jungle Exotic Petting Zoo in Alvin, Texas
This is the comic moment a newborn goat snuggled up to a giant tortoise in his new petting zoo home.
The goat was born on James and Kelly Peeler’s farm in Alvin, Texas, on February 11.
And nervous to see how the ‘brand spanking new’ kid was settling in, James filmed as he walked over to the pen to check.
But rather than finding the baby keeping close to its mother, James found the goat had been taken under the wing of ‘Uncle Ike’, a giant tortoise and long-time resident of the farm.
James can be heard commenting: ‘You love that baby, don’t you Ike,’ as the bleating kid tucks itself under the tortoise’s wrinkly neck.
And Ike seems to welcome the kid as he tucks his head down on the tiny goat’s back.
Afterwards James said: ‘We were checking on the new goat babies that were just born and Uncle Ike was loving on one of the new babies.’
The funny video was captured on Jim’s Jungle Exotic Petting Zoo last Friday.
Hilarious footage has captured the moment a baby goat snuggled up to ‘Uncle Ike’, a giant tortoise in his new petting zoo home in Alvin, Texas
The zoo was set up six years ago by James and Kelly who were inspired after seeing a petting zoo at their nephew’s birthday party.
Based on a five-acre farm in Alvin, they now keep between 80 and 100 animals, most of which travel around as part of the mobile zoo.
The zoo’s regular line-up includes mini ponies, goats, a lemur named Gizmo, a wallaby, baby geese and Ike the giant tortoise.
‘We hook up the trailer and they pretty much board themselves. Except, Ike, the tortoise, who needs to be carried,’ said Kelly.
‘The animals know when they are home, they can relax so we don’t have petting customers come to the farm,’ she added.