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Eco Terrorits -- we got hit

So yesterday we found two dead goats, in our winter goat paddock.  As a matter of course we have videos of the area to ensure that our goats are ok, but late yesterday afternoon, two young men and a woman parked their car near our farm buildings and decided to liberate our goats, they opened the gate and tried to encourage them to leave and I assume to be free (on the road...).  

Farm animals are not very trusting of humans, cannot say that I blame them, but these were all nanny goats and milk producers so they have a rather good life...So when the goats refused to leave they started kicking them to encourage them (we have it all on video).  My farm manager was alerted almost immediately by the noise and chassed these idiots away.  When she went back to the pasture she found two dead goats.   Goats are sensitive to aggressive behaviour and these were two of our oldest nanny goats (part of our original flock).  They could have lived another 3/4 years, easily.  The entire flock was agitated the entire night, and milk production was much lower than usual.    

So last night, after reviewing the video, Jennifer called the police and gave them the car plate number for this idiot.  They called Jennifer back this afternoon to give us the news, that one of the perpetrators had been arrested, they found literature for the Animal Liberation Front.  Considering that the only thing they managed to do was kill two goats...really a disaster.  

One of the men (actually almost still a boy, he just turned 18) was apparently arrested and charged this morning.  We had videos that showed their face and their car plates... These cretins could really have been hurt if instead of running into the nanny's paddock they had run into the bucks' paddock.  That lot can be bloody aggressive, even I approach them with caution.

The police officer thought they were wannabes rather than the real thing.  Apparently, the police also got other calls about vandals that had damaged farm gates, but it's unknown if it was the same bunch.  

Next project; building a farm gate...

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