It’s official: Goats are the chaotic good that we needed this summer. After a herd of goats apparently pulled some MacGyver stunt to escape their enclosure, they’ve been busy doing goat things all around the Boise, Idaho area. (Which basically means they’re harmonizing their bleats and trimming everyone’s grass.)
The Fast Company reports that the goats have overrun a suburban town just West Boise, Idaho. Naturally, we have questions like: how did the goats get out? Where’s all the GIF-able goat content? And why can’t this happen in our town?
While Joe Parris, a reporter at KTVB, initially reported that the cohort constituted of 100 or more goats, the AV Club notes that there were only approximately 75 goats wreaking havoc on the neighborhoods of West Boise.
Here is a live look at #Boise Goat-a-Paloza 2018 pic.twitter.com/RTZR6bWsRP
— Joe Parris (@KTVBJoe) August 3, 2018
Idaho Statesman notes that the goats were a part of a company called We Rent Goat, where the goats can be rented out to chow down on some weeds and overgrown foliage. The goats were initially commissioned to break down some brush in a nearby retention pond, but they escaped through some gaps in the wood fence. In other words, this neighborhood just got a trial period of the rent-a-goat company.
Though the goat shenanigans created some adorable video content, kid-related puns, and free lawn service for the town, according to Parris all of the goats have returned home.