Thread: Qtown goats... running riot

Sister lives in Queenstown.. often sends me photos of goats roaming the streets. Todays effort...

Yeah, they are a major problem for the locals. I know some professional pest guys who often end up shooting them in the suburbs with suppressed .22s.

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Sister lives in Queenstown.. often sends me photos of goats roaming the streets. Todays effort...

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It's only Queenstown...raises the IQ tremendously.

Lol

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Originally Posted by outlander

It's only Queenstown...raises the IQ tremendously.

Haha. Damn right!

There are a number of small herds living on the outskirts of town which consistently make a nuisance of themselves. As Dama said they do get culled from time to time but their proximity to property definitely makes them hard to eliminate completely. As you can imagine, rolling up and shooting that goat in the photo is only going to result in a guest appearance before a judge... so the goats live on. The irony is there are very few left in places we can go shooting but you don't have to go far from home to see small mobs that you'd LIKE to shoot, but can't.

I do enjoy watching them though. The recent mating season during lockdown was extremely humorous.

Originally Posted by outlander

It's only Queenstown...raises the IQ tremendously.

Are they Aussie goats?

No, definitely not, otherwise they'd all have been shot by now!

Now if only it was a convertible with the top down.... thinking porche / ferrari / merc etc

Obviously fake news.
Jacinda has put all the out of work air hostesses into pest control and wilding pine control.
If this is actually a real picture I expect all those goats and pines will be gone by the end of the week because anytime I have flown those girls and guys have been super efficient at getting me a scotch on the rocks.

I almost hit one with the rental car when I was driving along the lake a few years ago.

Originally Posted by Rock

I almost hit one with the rental car when I was driving along the lake a few years ago.

Yeah, drunk air hostesses are a real danger to road traffic down here...

I've seen small mobs beside/crossing the Glenorchy road a few times too, there are obviously plenty of them around.

Are we talking about goats or still air hostesses?

There used to always be a few on the road edge at the single lane bits on the way to Glenorchy. Seen cars written off cos the goats walk out onto the road just up from the meg, pig rooting on the road edge at the same spot, also on the road edge along the lake up from Clyde.

I frequently see goats, the odd pig and occasional fallow deer on the road between Clyde and Cromwell, day and night.