Yesterday I was working under our offroad vehicle (an FJ Cruiser), installing some protective metal (a “lower link skid” over a vulnerable part of the rear suspension. On my back, on the ground, wrenches in hand and working over my head, I heard an unlikely munching sound – much louder than I'd expect to hear from a rabbit or ground squirrel. So I squirmed around until I could look in the direction of the munching, and what do I see? Three goats and a llama, calmly munching away on one of our shrubs, not 20' away from me.
Good grief!
These animals weren't familiar to us, though we do know about one place about a mile away that has llamas and sheep, and maybe goats. No tags were to be found, though the larger nanny goat had a fancy spiked collar that could have had a tag. So I left a note in the mailbox of the known llama-keeper, and I put up a sign ("Found: 1 llama and 3 goats") at the intersection of Lawson Valley Road and Rudnick Road. As of this morning, we got one call from someone whose pygmy goat was lost a couple months ago. She was disappointed to hear that we didn't have her pygmy goat, but she offered to take these guys off our hands if we couldn't find the owner. If the owner doesn't contact us by this afternoon, she and her kids are going to suddenly have an abundance of ornery animals!
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