Behind the Headlines

Working on a health story for the next week or two, I came across massive listings of national awareness months and days. They stem from National Diabetes Awareness Month to Mother’s Day to Open an Umbrella Indoors Day. When I came across June as National Goat Trauma Awareness Month, I just had to click the link.

I was directed to www.goat-trauma.org, The Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation. So says the site: “… was created in 1982 by a small group that originally came together as a an informal support group for problems that were the result of traumatic experiences at petting zoos as children. This group realized that there were many others out there who were afraid to come forward with their horrific stories and wanted to find some way to help as many people as they could. The Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation is the result of their dream.”

When the mouse rolls over the goat illustration its eyes turn red and it grows menacing fangs.