FRYEBURG — By noon on Tuesday, it was time for Cora Rose to stretch her legs and take a break.

The 8-month-old Nubian goat, with her long floppy ears and gorgeous brown eyes, drew admiring looks from Fryeburg Fair-goers as she walked across the parking lot with her owner, 13-year-old Jami Bubier of Greene.

Cora Rose and Jami are used to those admiring looks, especially from small children who have never seen a goat.

Sometimes, it would appear, there are some adults who have never seen a goat before either.

Jami, the daughter of Becky and Wayne Bubier, said she got a strange question about Cora Rose last year during Greene Days, the town’s annual celebration.

“A woman came up to me and asked what breed of dog she was,” Jami said.

In the five years Jami has been raising goats, she has learned a lot about farm animals as a member of the Doe-C-Doe 4-H Club. She has learned how to care for the goats, how to feed them, and how to show them at public events. This year she brought all three of her goats to the Fryeburg Fair.

Although her mom, Becky, is a city girl who grew up in Portland, she loves life on the farm, where they have cows, goats, rabbits and three dogs.

“I still have lots of friends there, so I go down and get my city fix every now and then,” Becky said.

There’s a reason they chose to raise Nubian goats.

“They’re known for their personalities,” Becky said. “They’re very loving.”

“We spoil ours. We give them cheese doodles and macaroni and candy canes,” Becky said. “But we’ve come to find out they don’t like ranch dressing,” she added.

“The face they make when they taste it is priceless,” Jami said.

Giving them a break from their pens inside the goat building at the fair is something mother and daughter try to do twice a day. The goats adapt pretty well to their temporary new surroundings, they said, and don’t seem to mind the constant stream of folks staring at them.

Asked if goats bite, Becky said, “Oh yes, occasionally — most likely they’re looking for food.”

Giving Cora Rose treats isn’t the only way Jami spoils her.

“She lets her in the house,” her mother said. She also lets her miniature horse, Samantha Rose, inside, too. So far, so good — but they don’t get to stay overnight.

With Halloween only a few weeks away, Jami already has a costume picked out for Cora Rose. She’ll have her first fitting Friday night when there’s a parade at the fairgrounds, just before the fireworks.

The goats are mostly well behaved, Becky said, except for a recent incident when they escaped from their pen. Earlier in the day Becky had bought a huge pot of flowers to plant around the house. When they arrived home late that evening, they found the pot filled with flowerless stems and the remains of half eaten flowers strewn around the yard.

Becky home-schools Jami, who lives with brothers Matthew, 19, and Jacob, 15, on the family farm, called Jami’s Dream Farm.

The fair continues through Sunday.