Goat left to fend for self
Post-Tribune (IN)
August 10, 2004
A gray goat patrols 53rd Avenue in the front yard of a boarded-up, abandoned house. He has no food, water or shelter. And now no companion.
A younger goat-sheep hybrid, that shadowed him since caretakers left both animals unfenced and abandoned in March, wandered onto the busy avenue Friday and was hit by a car.
Caring neighbors moved the carcass to a side yard. Those same neighbors have brought nourishment such as corn, oats and buckets of water to the duo for five months. No animal control agency has been willing to permanently rescue the animals.
"I've made calls to the Hobart Humane Society. They can't do anything because it's livestock," a female neighbor who would only identify herself as Mrs. Watkins said.
"DNR bought out the older couple who used to live here. The couple took their cows, but left the two goats behind -- when it was still cold out. Now one's been hit by a car. It's a shame. He's lost his buddy and I don't want him to get hit too."
Carol Konpacki, Humane Society of Hobart director, said they can legally transport only dogs and cats in their vehicles.
Humane Society manager Connie Hollar said she will see if a Wheeler goat farmer will agree to take the animal. However, other rescues might soon be on the way.
Betty Clayton, director of the Humane Society of Northwest Indiana, hopes to rope the goat and use her SUV to transport him to Critter Crossing in Lake Zurich, Ill.
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