Scouting trip /bear hunt

[Nanno]

I thought the exact same thing at first, Duck-Slayer. Goats do have a natural tendency to dislike being touched on the back or hindquarters (I'm pretty sure it's dominance related--they mount each other to display dominance, and when we touch them behind the shoulder they react as though we were "mounting" them). They also naturally dip their backs down when touched on the spine, which is why people who show goats run their fingers along their spine near the hips to get them to level out. This sounds a bit different though, and the reason I say that is because it sounds like the goats didn't evade the saddles the first time. They started it later on into the trip. It also only happened with the goats wearing the Northwest saddles. This points to a saddle fitting issue to me. It would be worth switching saddles on the goats to see what happens.