What's the Appeal of Puppy/Goat Yoga?

[Anonymous]

I'll start this off by saying that I'm a dog lover and my family has two of them!

That said, what is the appeal of the recent trend of participating in goat yoga or puppy yoga? I haven't done it myself, so I can't totally judge it, but a close friend of mine did and she said that it basically was a waste of an hour as far as getting a yoga workout. She's also a dog lover and said she wished she had just played with her yellow lab for an hour then gone to her usual yoga class.

I love puppies and actively practice yoga, but the recent puppy/goat trend seems very odd to me. Curious about other's experiences?

[Anonymous]

It's a novelty activity.

[Anonymous]

Dude, you get to play with puppies! The yoga is only there to make it less weird to pay $$ to play with puppies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll start this off by saying that I'm a dog lover and my family has two of them!

That said, what is the appeal of the recent trend of participating in goat yoga or puppy yoga? I haven't done it myself, so I can't totally judge it, but a close friend of mine did and she said that it basically was a waste of an hour as far as getting a yoga workout. She's also a dog lover and said she wished she had just played with her yellow lab for an hour then gone to her usual yoga class.

I love puppies and actively practice yoga, but the recent puppy/goat trend seems very odd to me. Curious about other's experiences?

That's been a silly thing for decades.
I dunno why people like it, just for the photos and probably because many are city people, or just Americans in general, who have never been around kid goats?
Goats are cute when kids, but Aholes when they get grown up!

[Anonymous]

I did it last summer with all the females in my family. It was a lot of fun and silly - barely any yoga performed by us (although we did get lots of nasty glares from those who were serious about the yoga part).
Anyway, it's a one and done for me but my family got a lot of laughs, great pictures and fun out of it.
And the baby goats were precious and adorable.

[Anonymous]

No idea who started the baby goat yoga trend and why. Silliness, I guess? And to make money. But also: Baby goats are adorable.

The puppy yoga trend I’ve seen in DC lately has puppies from breeders, not shelters. So I guess you can pay $70 for a puppy yoga class, get your photos taken, help the breeders socialize the puppies their going to sell, and maybe you could then apply to pay a few thousand for a puppy if you fall in love.

This done with shelter puppies to raise shelter funds would be amazing, but I find breeders gross.

[Anonymous]

It’s the opposite of yoga.

[Anonymous]

I don't know, but it seems to be a birthday party trend for DD11. She's been to two puppy yoga parties this year!

I think it's really weird.

[Anonymous]

I had a friend do it for a work activity. It was supposed to be for team bonding. They said the goats were cute but definitely distracting and they pooped everywhere so they had to have tons of plastic mats around them.

I think it is more for the fun of it and to get a chance to relax with animals, not so much exercising.

[Anonymous]

I have no idea why anyone would willingly submit to, much less enthusiastically attend, any activity involving a goat. Have you seen their eyes? Disturbing. There's a reason they have been used throughout history as a symbol of the underworld.

[Anonymous]

It’s not for the exercise. It’s for the opportunity to play with puppies and goats. It’s a novelty and fun.

[Anonymous]

If people weren't able to take post social media photographs, they wouldn't be doing it.

[Anonymous]

Where I live it's not allowed with puppies for animal welfare reasons. I would never take part in a puppy yoga class; you don't know what will happen to them when they are no longer puppies. It's a horrible business.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where I live it's not allowed with puppies for animal welfare reasons. I would never take part in a puppy yoga class; you don't know what will happen to them when they are no longer puppies. It's a horrible business.

Ugh — like the “cow cuddling” sessions people buy in Maryland. It’s just a way for farms to make money. Meanwhile the calves are separated from their mothers and will be soon used for dairy and beef. I hate it. I get it in some ways — I mean, I love cows, too, but not like this. And I don’t eat them.