professional goats casually takeover a Boise neighborhood, going house to house eating everything

[Demovictory9]

More than 100 goats have burst into a neighborhood in Idaho startling residents and captivating spectators on social media as they feasted on lawns, flower bushes and tree leaves.

The herd of goats had been at work clearing some land for the county when scores of the inquisitive animals escaped at about 7am on Friday and wandered into a Boise suburb, their owner said.

'They were on a pond that the county had hired us to clear, and it looks like they pushed through some of the wood boards and got out that way,' said Matt Gabica, co-owner of We Rent Goats, a company that provides goats to clear weeds on private and public property.

'A bunch of homeowners and a bunch of kids had some excitement.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6024311/Who-let-goats-Runaway-herd-invades-Idaho-neighborhood.html


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At about 8:30 a.m., a large truck from the company We Rent Goats arrived and rounded up the goats. KTVB reported that the goats had been grazing nearby when they somehow escaped and set off on a snacking tour of the neighborhood.


neighborhood in Boise, ID became the scene of an unexpected goat takeover this week, as “about 100” goats descended on the lawns and gardens of a residential area — to the surprise of homeowners waking up to discover their new neighbors snacking on their front yards.

“They are going house to house eating everything in sight. Nobody has a clue where they came from…” tweeted out local news reporter Joe Parris on Friday morning. The goats came in all shapes, colors and sizes and were snapped meandering around sidewalks and even making a few attempts to climb trees.

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he event he coined “Goat-a-Palooza 2018” got many scratching their heads trying to figure out just where the goats had come from. But in the end, the mystery was solved as the animals were herded together and returned to their ostensible home.

“Party is over ‘kids’!” Parris continued to update. “Loose goats have been cornered and loaded back onto a truck owned by ‘We Rent Goats.'” According to local news, the goats had been stationed on nearby land where they were let loose grazing; herds of goats are often used as a natural form of fire suppression and weed clearing. But somehow this particular group got away from their station and decided the neighborhood’s nice green lawns were more to their taste.

[Laffy Kat]

1. Getting your lawn mowed and fertilized at the same time!

It's great deal if you ask me.

[moriah]

2. Goats are best fenced out, not in.

They've wonderful animals, but having lived with a pair and seen the herds at various intentional communities, they thrived best when fencing was made for areas where people would be using shoes worn indoors and double or triple fencing of gardens -- the goats not fenced in, but given free range of browsing outside areas poop or crops mattered.

Of course, when your organization is preserving 300+ acres high in the Cumberland Mountains, it's not like humans need a huge footprint of land free of poop in comparison to the ample habitat available.