We were driving home from the river today, when I saw a boer buck wandering along the side of the road. With our recent issues surrounding the escaping of certain goats and the yahoos who call the cops (even in farming country) when livestock get out, we decided to stop and see if we could find the owner and/or round up the goat.
We learned quickly that this goat had been abandoned by the previous renter and had escaped his pen almost immediately (which he would need to do in order to survive). For the past three months, the goat had been free ranging it in the yard.
We asked the property owner - a lady from southern California with absolutely no interest in or knowledge of goats - if we could catch the goat and take him home. J seemed particularly fond of this goat and really wanted to keep him. The lady said sure, but mentioned that others had tried before us and had not succeeded.
Ahhh, but they did not have our secret weapon. Girls. We borrowed a friend's trailer, loaded up two of our beautiful does, and went over to the house. We chose to do this at night because my husband had his mind set on getting this goat home...I probably would've been happy waiting till morning, but I didn't have the goat connection. So, in the dark, we wandered the property, catching glipses of the buck and coaxing the girls to call out to him from the open trailer.
We did this for about an hour before I called it quits. We decided to come back in a few days (we have a planned camping trip for the next three days). We may have to earn his trust before we can get him into the trailer and home. All for the love of a goat.
*UPDATE* We've gone by the property several times since the trip and have seen hide nor hair of him. My guess is that the owner called animal control and had him removed. Hope they had better luck than we did.
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