100+ Goats Break Free, Eat Their Way Through Idaho Neighborhood
BOISE, Idaho (CBS Local/AP) — Call it a "goat-pocalypse": more than 100 goats escaped their enclosure and munched on manicured lawns in Idaho's capital city before being rounded up and hauled away.
#Breaking - About 100 goats are on the loose right now in a #Boise neighborhood. They are going house to house eating everything in sight. Nobody has a clue where they came from...updates to follow pic.twitter.com/K0ghUwQEfk
— Joe Parris (@KTVBJoe) August 3, 2018
Multiple news outlets captured the goats calmly eating grass and shrubs in a Boise neighborhood Friday morning before a trailer arrived to applause from neighborhood residents.
The owner of We Rent Goats told CBS Boise affiliate KBOI-TV that the 118 goats were grazing at a retention pond when they broke through a fence and went to explore.
Goats are sometimes let loose in the nearby Boise foothills to eat wild plants and reduce wildfire threats.
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