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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-10 12:27 PM
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This week's bizarre animal story from Oakland features... goats!
In the past couple of months we've had Oakland cops gun down a deer who wandered onto someone's patio, then an 11-year-old arthritic Lab who had the misfortune to be outside when her humans' burglar alarm went off (At least they were polite enough to leave a note. :eyes: ).

Today, no cops -- just goats (and the subhumans who neglect them).

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_16741993

An Alameda County judge has ordered two men connected to a company that provides brush-clearing goats to stand trial on charges of animal neglect.

Prosecutors said Monday that Judge Paul Fogel found at the conclusion of a preliminary hearing that there was sufficient evidence against Egon Oyarzun, 48, and Wilfredo Felix, 40, for the men to face trial.

Oyarzun is co-owner of Orinda-based Goats R Us. Felix is a herder with the company.

The two men were arrested after animal control officers say they found 10 of the company's goats dead in October in Oakland.


:wtf:
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-10 12:32 PM
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1. That sucks. Goats are some of the nicest critters out there,
wagging their tails to greet you and supplying milk far out of proportion to their small size. Were I ever to turn to dairy farming, I'd have goats instead of cows and a chevre business on the side.

Brush clearing goats are especially fine. Here they've shown a distinct preference for the non native salt cedar that is choking the river banks and draining the water out of the desert soil and leaving native plants like cottonwoods. Very intelligent, these goats.

Mistreating them is unconscionable.
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-30-10 12:39 PM
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2. and we love those goats because the do such a great service for us.
and it's great fun to be driving down the freeway -- hiway 13 in particular -- and zip past the little cuties doing their job.
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