More than one parent has remarked, upon watching a therapeutic “play date” session in progress at Carbondale’s Smiling Goat Ranch, “This looks like a bunch of kids are just playing together outside.” ...

Every year, the nonprofit Smiling Goat Ranch (SGR) honors a person who has gone above and beyond to keep its mission alive — offering therapeutic, animal assisted therapy services for free to families ...

Hay has always been for horses, but now the month of May — which is Mental Health Awareness Month — is for them, as well. Recently, Smiling Goat Ranch out of Basalt was selected out of over 100 ...

The Smiling Goat Ranch is hosting its annual mental health, autism and veterans awareness walk Friday during Carbondale’s First Friday with an added 5K run. The fifth annual Healing Hoof will begin at ...

Smiling Goat Ranch is amid some good company for a good cause this month. The Carbondale ranch recently announced its participation in the 2025 Seen Through Horses Campaign, which is aimed at raising ...

You should be happy when you meet a hoofed friend. Especially if that friend is a goat. Because, it turns out, goats can read human moods and are more drawn to people who look happy. SEE ALSO: A Baby ...

Smiling Goat Ranch is located at Hunt Ranch on County Road 102 in Missouri Heights and helps people with neuropsychiatric ...

Goats can distinguish human facial expressions and they would rather interact with friendly faces, scientists have discovered in a new study. A team of researchers conducted the experiment involving ...

As the editor of a blog called Goats and Soda (see this story for the explanation behind the name), I'm always interested in the latest goat research. So I was definitely hooked by a press release ...