Sleeping in Bathrooms With Goats

A Story of My Sister’s Unending Compassion

Photo by Rafael Cisneros Méndez on Unsplash

“I think she’s going to have her baby tonight! I’m going to bring her inside,” my sister said with concern and excitement as she felt her pregnant goat’s bulging belly and swollen udders.

It was wintertime in Michigan and if the baby was born outside, it would likely freeze to death. She put a rope around the…