Goats do the darnedest things.

[smstonypoint]

Here's the story -- Dramatic Goat Rescue Operation For A Pair Stuck On A Beam Under A Bridge : Goats and Soda : NPR.

Steve

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Wow,,,

 

[PILOON]

LOL, goats, back when I smoked one of those darn trash collectors (goats) actually picked my pack of cigs (when I used them) from my back pocket and ate them.
I suffered severe withdrawal symptoms until I could find a local corner store.

 

[Thomas]

Just when you thought you saw about everything.

 

[quicksandfarmer]

And the farmer was glad to have them back because they were due to go to the butcher this week...

 

[Jstpssng]

Great story! Thanks for posting it. (There's NO WAY that you would catch me in that crane though. )

 

[ovrszd]

Goats do nothing to compare to humans. Those goats would have retreated back to stable ground on their own terms. I've saw Mountain Sheep in Colorado on much more precarious ledges.

So, you can just hear the "goat conversation". "Hey, look here, what are these stupid humans doing"? "I don't know, let's just stand here and see what happens".

 

[2LaneCruzer]

LOL, goats, back when I smoked one of those darn trash collectors (goats) actually picked my pack of cigs (when I used them) from my back pocket and ate them.
I suffered severe withdrawal symptoms until I could find a local corner store.

I can relate. Sharn Jean and I went to visit a friend of mine, that I used to work with...he lived on a small farm, and had a big billy goat. I pulled out a cig and he (the goat) grabbed it and ate before I knew what happened. I thought it was fun, and fed him a couple more...he would have eaten the whole pack! I told my friend about it (he was in the house at the time), and he said "That's nothing...you ought to see him drink beer!".

 

[RSKY]

The last time my family raised tobacco I was about seven or eight years old. We had a HUGE male goat. He was big enough my dad could ride on him. Dad got all the tobacco hung in the barn (a log structure dated to before the Civil War). When he went to check on it a few days later the goat was standing on his hind legs eating the tips off. He ate the bottom 6-12" off all those green tobacco leaves. A few days later he turned mean as could be. Butting all the cows and chasing any of us that went into the pasture. Guess he was having nicotine withdrawal.

RSKY

 

[nybirdman]

Google "goats on a dam",crazy axx goats.

 

[prichard]

Google "goats on a dam",crazy axx goats.

ACE put goats on a nearby dam. No other way to "mow" that slope.

 

[bunyip]

We bought a place many years ago that was overun with blackberries, we got a goat to get rid of them as blackberries are like triffids and stalk humans and attack when least expected, to keep the goat on check we had him on a chain attached to a large block of concrete, as he got through the blackberries he would strain on the chain and move the block far enough to get at the next bit, took him about 6 months to clear the block.
The chain was about 15' long so he could get some cover in the rain and we went out one morning, there was the concrete block but no goat, a quick look around from the verandah then we heard him bleat, he was up in a tree eating the leaves.
When he finished we sent him to a friends place who had just bought a house and had a lot of weeds and blackberries, he put in a fence about 3' high around a vegetable patch he created and the goat immediately bounded over to get the easy feed, he cleared the fence by about 4" so we reasoned that if we extended the height by about 1' we would be safe, we did that and over he went and cleared it by about 4", this went on until the fence was 6' high and he couldn't get over it, they won't expend more energy than they have to but we did.
he did the rounds of several properties in the area and was well known until someone sold him which we were a bit peeved about, there is always one in the neighbourhood.