We’ve had The Goat Escape and we’ve had ‘scapegoats so I’m running out of goat-related escape references.
That’s the trouble with goats, they can escape quicker than I can think of new puns. I’m thinking of Kidnapped and Do Androids Dream of Electric Fences? but neither of them are quite right.
We were on the way home last night. I stopped and looked left to check it was safe to drive out and…
…I was close to driving off, but my conscience got the better of me. At 7 pm I have better things to do than round up livestock for farmers who can’t keep their fences in order. On the other hand it isn’t fair on the goats or passing drivers to let livestock wander free.
Once we got them trapped and moving they went back in the field without too much trouble, which was good because they had escaped via a neighbour’s orchard and it could have been complicated to get them back. Instead we just got them moving in the right direction and waved a few branches (broken from nearby hedges) at them. They love eating hedges so they just followed Julia back to the field to chew on the branches.
It’s simple when you know how.
I’ve included a couple of pictures of the village pinfold. Under the 1959 Highways Act it is still lawful to detain an animal in the pinfold if it is found wandering on the road. This happened to us once – we had a phone call to say there was a goat on the road but couldn’t find it. When we did track it down someone had shut it in the pinfold, where it was busily chomping its way through the floral display. We were multiply unpopular after that.
Love the photo of the goats waltzing off down the road.
I’d never heard of a pinfold before this blog post.
I’m sound on pinfolds, but less so on fencing for goats. 😉
You have to be kidding
😉
Galloping Goats? The Great Goat Outbreak? Goats Gambols? 😀
All good titles, you may see some of those appearing later… Thanks. 😉
LOL! I hope they won’t keep escaping though!
They’ve already escaped again this morning – found another gap in the fence after we plugged the original one. 😉
Unprinciples ungulates! 😛
If they knew what was coming they would be Unlucky Ungulates. 😉