Silly Little Habit

SOLD |  13" X 15"  |  Acrylic on board

It all started innocent enough. A few nibbles here, a kernel or two at the hors d'oeuvre table, a midnight snack at the feed trough. If only she could have looked to the future to see how the "silly little habit" would consume her every intention. The bites mushroomed into bushels, the occasional pecking evolved into a persistent gnawing and trivial indigestion turned to Clinical Laminitis.

Although her stomach had doubled in size as she now carried a balloon-like belly on stick legs, it all seemed manageable. Until the ethanol boom. Corn had become a hot commodity, the "Gold of the Bible-Belt" they said. Being a goat, she languished at the bottom of the supply chain. Without her bushel-a-day fix at hand, she became desperate—she devised a plan... To purchase this goat painting email Brad Bunkers.