Tag: goats

‘My children hid with goats to trick kidnappers’

Chaos descended on a Nigerian town at sundown when kidnappers attacked as people were preparing their evening meals last Friday. Residents rushed helter-skelter to escape. “When the invaders came to town firing gunshots, I jumped on my motorbike and rode into the night,” a man from Kuchi told the BBC on condition of anonymity about […]

Dozens of goats rescued from Lee farm

May 22—The New Hampshire SPCA rescued 54 goats from “unsafe and filthy conditions” at a farm in Lee on Tuesday, including one animal that already has died despite getting medical care. The organization announced the rescue Wednesday, saying staff members had gone with Lee police officers to execute a search warrant at the farm. “The […]

Hundreds of mountain goats were flown to a new home. Very few survived.

For three summers, wildlife managers wrestled mountain goats in Washington state’s Olympic National Park, blindfolded them and then flew them into the far reaches of the state’s Cascade Range — an ambitious project to boost the goat population in an area where they once were common. The researchers released a total of 325 goats into the Cascades from 2018 to 2020. Today, most of […]

No kidding! Highway herd of goats gather on I-64 near High Rise Bridge

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — They really don’t kid around. Somehow, more than eight sneaky goats made their break from a nearby farm and wandered around the wall to Interstate 64 in Chesapeake, near the High Rise Bridge. But before they could make their grand escape, Virginia State Police troopers helped round them up and held […]