Wild Goats Take The Opportunity To Take Over This British Town During The Lockdown
As most of the world is in quarantine due to doctors and health officials recommending social distancing or, even better, to self isolate if possible, nature is finding ways to claim back cities all over the world. We’ve already witnessed a lot of marvelous examples of nature getting back what’s rightfully hers, such as clearing up Venice’s canals.
We’ve also seen some wholesome human effort to make the lives of animals living among us at least a little bit more enjoyable and letting them roam as free as possible and meet other animals. This story is kinda continuing the same thread, only this time, the only help the animals needed from humans was to clear out the whole town in order for them to roam free. And the coronavirus lockdown became the perfect opportunity.
The coastal town of Llandudno in Wales became quite empty due to the UK being under the coronavirus lockdown
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This pack of wild Kashmiri goats saw that as a perfect opportunity and claimed the streets for themselves to roam freely
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They seem to be quite enjoying city life, strolling down the streets and munching on some hedges
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Usually, the herd of around 120 goats only come down from the nearby Great Orme headland in extremely bad weather
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However, it appears they couldn’t miss this opportunity since all the humans locked themselves up at home
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Manchester Evening News video and web producer Andrew Stuart has been documenting the town takeover
I think I just got a group of goats in Llandudno arrested.
Let me explain… first, I saw this from inside a dark pub (the one I live in currently). I thought I was seeing things. So I took some video: pic.twitter.com/RtxYG6htLC
— Andrew Stuart (@AndrewStuart) March 27, 2020
He’s taken over the role of “goat corespondent” as he calls himself now and is constantly posting new updates on Twitter
So I decided to see what was going on. They stopped on Trinity Square, and decided the hedges there looked very tasty (tbf, they probably are if you’re a goat
) pic.twitter.com/Sz7WnoQGsd
— Andrew Stuart (@AndrewStuart) March 27, 2020
Stuart said he originally called the police on the goats last week for not being the best citizens, starting riots, and snacking on hedges
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And we certainly can’t blame him, after all, they were not even abiding by social distancing rules
Just kidding around, yeah?
— Andrew Stuart (@AndrewStuart) March 28, 2020
However, it seems he later had a change of heart
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Can’t believe I’m writing this… they’re back (again) pic.twitter.com/fwMLPa53ue
— Andrew Stuart (@AndrewStuart) March 30, 2020
I, for one, welcome our new goat overlords pic.twitter.com/Fk5x6XaCLM
— Andrew Stuart (@AndrewStuart) March 30, 2020
This shows what it’s all about. They’re scared of me (a human) in this. They don’t like people. They usually only come down from the Great Orme when it’s windy, and only the back streets at the top of Mostyn Street. Now lockdown means it’s empty, they’re going further than ever. pic.twitter.com/roZpNm61Qh
— Andrew Stuart (@AndrewStuart) March 30, 2020
They definitely dgaf
— Andrew Stuart (@AndrewStuart) March 30, 2020
And they mean business this time #goats #llandudno pic.twitter.com/8PORNufdp2
— Andrew Stuart (@AndrewStuart) March 31, 2020
Llandudno is run by goats pic.twitter.com/C7nENePcEA
— Andrew Stuart (@AndrewStuart) March 31, 2020
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