bothered by goats !

Foleyart · 30-01-2020 12:25pm #1

I live in a rural area in a detached house with some land attached. Big lawn, multitude of shrubs and trees planted. We have had trouble in the past with a particular "gentleman" who had horses on land with no food or grazing which meant they frequently broke out to enjoy our lovely grass. That problem was sorted. Lately a pair of goats have appeared and it is impossible to keep them out. They have eaten 2 new holly trees we got as a gift along with all else in their path. Everybody denies ownership of the offending animals, a puck and a nanny with one eye. Any ideas on how to get rid of them ?

jam_mac_jam · 30-01-2020 12:33pm

Eat them?

FTA69 · 30-01-2020 12:34pm

Slaughter them and make them into a curry.

Thelonious Monk · 30-01-2020 12:34pm

I love goats. Maybe they should be trying to get rid of you!

R.F. · 30-01-2020 12:34pm

Do you know any Welshmen?

Bullocks · 30-01-2020 12:35pm

R.F. wrote: »

Do you know any Welshmen?

I believe they prefer sheep, but the odd lad mightnt discriminate and stick her back legs down his wellingtons anyhow

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 30-01-2020 12:36pm

There was a trend here a few years ago of people dumping goats in nearby fields. Contact the council.

chooseusername · 30-01-2020 12:37pm

FTA69 wrote: »

Slaughter them and make them into a curry.

Too tough,
wait for lovely little kiddy goats,
unless maybe puck be gay,
or one-eyed nanny past it.

jam_mac_jam · 30-01-2020 12:40pm

chooseusername wrote: »

Too tough,
wait for lovely little kiddy goats,
unless maybe puck be gay,
or one-eyed nanny past it.

Just cook them for a long long time. Nicest parts of curry.

Bobblehats · 30-01-2020 12:43pm

Goat bothereder..

Foleyart · 30-01-2020 12:45pm

Too old and hoary to be eaten ! what about the GSPCA ?(I live in Galway) would they not take them away ?

jam_mac_jam · 30-01-2020 12:47pm

Hoary?

Deebles McBeebles · 30-01-2020 12:47pm

Countless vermin gnashing at my face
Tear meat from my skull
Swarming, rabid, features are erased
Unrecognizable
Body covered, rat filled innards
Shred internal organs
Heart and lungs consumed from inside but my pain doesn't end
I have not died
Devour, cesspool of vermin
Devour, bloodthirsty rabid
Bothered By Goats

Bobblehats · 30-01-2020 12:49pm

Cannibal corpse?

Doctors room ghost · 30-01-2020 12:55pm

Handiest way of dealing with them is give them a pinch of meal in a bucket for a couple of days to tame them and when they start coming to a bucket for you load them into a cowbox and drive them a good distance from the house and turn them loose into a forest.
It’s either that or get someone to shoot them.you could butcher them for dogs but you couldn’t eat them yourself.too tough and the puck is stink.
Just pick a forest that’s not near a busy road for fear they would cause an accident

Foleyart · 30-01-2020 12:58pm

Hoary as in old ragged and decrepit. I don't have a trailer unfortunately but I may have to borrow one. Ah well !

Bobblehats · 30-01-2020 1:06pm

FTA69 wrote: »

Slaughter them and make them into a curry.

Nothing worse than a hairy curry. It’s a bit like commiting hari-kari

FGR · 30-01-2020 3:44pm

Bobblehats wrote: »

Nothing worse than a hairy curry. It’s a bit like commiting hari-kari

Reading that made me think of how my grandparents used to eat 'hairy bacon'.

Between that and Crubeen I don't think I'd have had issues keeping my weight down - had I lived in that era.

jim o doom · 30-01-2020 4:00pm

Goat curry (as others have suggested) is really delicious once you cook it long enough!

Bobblehats · 30-01-2020 4:08pm

FGR wrote: »

Reading that made me think of how my grandparents used to eat 'hairy bacon'.

Between that and Crubeen I don't think I'd have had issues keeping my weight down - had I lived in that era.

A big dirty slab of bacon with a rind that hadn’t seen a proper shave is a thing of the past I hope

Thought crubeen is a fancy cheese For a moment but don’t much fancy rinsing the cheese off from between pigs toes ~ hairy / curry might well have been open to interpretation and so is that I suppose...

pawdee · 30-01-2020 4:12pm

Bobblehats wrote: »

Cannibal corpse?

Goatwhore.

Dr. Bre · 30-01-2020 4:13pm

You goat to sort this out...

Bobblehats · 30-01-2020 4:16pm

pawdee wrote: »

Goatwhore.

From Louisiana I see. Pigs; deep south uuh...

SEPT 23 1989 · 30-01-2020 4:26pm

have you tried talking to them?

gozunda · 30-01-2020 4:27pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

I love goats. Maybe they should be trying to get rid of you!

Mason? :pac:

whisky_galore · 30-01-2020 4:28pm

Shoot the bastards.

Mefistofelino · 30-01-2020 4:38pm

Who ya gonna call?

Goat-busters, obv.

irish_goat · 30-01-2020 4:41pm

Jurgen Klopp · 30-01-2020 4:42pm

If everyone denies owning contact the Gardai and tell them they are on your property and surrounding landowners deny they own them.

They'll arrange for them to be taken away.

Had one local who fancied himself as a "cute heure" who would let animals without any tags into graze different fields that wouldn't be in use and deny they were his

Until, he was driving past the latest persons field and saw them being loaded up into a lorry with a couple of Gardai present