>Oh, and the goats are probably guiltless: though I guess allergy and
>zoonoses are not that uncommon.

Okay, okay.  Zoonoses (ZOH-oh-NO-seez) is the pural of zoonosis, which is a
disease that can be transmitted to humans from other vertebrate species -
as I now know from looking it up.  But all I could picture at first was a
bunch of camel snouts pushing thru the bars - a whole row of zoo noses.

Diane Wiessinger, semi-literate in Ithaca, NY