Anybody here familiar with goats? [View all]
I rent a room from two wonderful people in a suburban area that just ten years ago would have been considered rural. The house here sits on about 1/8 acre (maybe less) and a huge amount of blackberry have covered the rear of the yard. The people I rent from have reached out to (their) friends to find out what can be done to get rid of the blackberry and now we have two old male goats in out yard. Two days ago I walked out the back door and found that we now have goats! The people who brought these two goats over put them on lines, separately, and warned my roommates that the two should not come into contact with one another because they would do, "boy things at each other". Then, my roommates say that these guys ordered that the goats do not need shelter or food from us because everything will be with the blackberry bushes. And that they're goats. They have apparently been let out like this before, for weeks, as one of my roommates' friends referred these 'goat people' to them. This whole thing of the goats don't need shelter doesn't sound right to me as I just went out back to see the two old guys chained to their separate tether lines. They both have really thick fur and I was able to run my fingers under the collars. I have not seen hide nor hair of their owners since they have left the goats here with us two days ago. Is this how we're supposed to treat old goats?
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