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To the villagers, tough luck the goats get my vote

ButtonMonkey

ButtonMonkey

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So the heard have been mentioned in the doomsday book.

As far as I am concerned the villagers have got to lump it.

What right does anyone have to consider a cull on a heard that have been around for hundreds of years.

So they eat flowers in the cemetery, tough sh1t that's what goats do.

You have living history in your village embrace it don't kill it off.

This rant is courtesy of;

Grid mastered by 'naughty' goats

A notorious herd of wild goats has brought havoc to a north Devon village once again.
About a dozen billy goats managed to cross a £40,000 cattle grid, which was put in to keep them out of the picturesque village of Lynton.

The goats, which have roamed the Valley of the Rocks near Lynmouth for hundreds of years, have divided villagers.

Some claim they are destructive and dangerous pests, while others say they are an important tourist drawcard.

In May 2005, the goats were given a reprieve when the town council abandoned its plans to cull them, in favour of installing the grid.

But it has only taken the goats a few months to learn how to "tip-toe" over it to get back into the village, where they have again been eating flowers in the cemetery and damaging gardens, along with the local cricket pitch.

Mayor Suzette Hibbert said the problem would need to be addressed once again.

"They are very naughty goats and really quite adept at walking on or between the cattle grid as they have very long legs," she said.

"As well as being escapologists they can climbs trees, but they do get into the cemetery and eat the freshly laid flowers, which upsets the residents very much."

Ms Hibbert said the council was in discussions with the county council, Exmoor Park Authority and grid supplier.

"But to be quite honest I don't think there is a cattle grid to keep them out."

The 80-strong herd grazes in the 300-acre valley in Exmoor National Park and was mentioned in the Domesday Book.
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Yep I agree. These are in effect wild animals, why should we wipe them out becuase they are inconveniant to us. Same goes for badgers, seagull and pidgeons.
 
Typical of todays people :(

These will be the same morons who make a fuss about me shooting foxes that kill stock.
"Cant do that you wicked man - Hold on, a goat sh*tting on my lawn Kill the bas-tard"

Will be a bloody outrage if they cull them for such a petty reason :Bloodymad
 
If they consider a cull again I think I may have to have a trundle down there and make a nuisance of myself.

They have more right to be ther than the villagers and have the right to go where ever the damm well please.
 
Hmm, so these people have never really lived up on the North York Moors then where the sheep just wander into the vilages and eat away... likewise the same in the Highlands...

It is not just that, it's like the people in York I heard moaning about flooding, ermm, you bought the property on the side of the River which had a history of flooding going back to the beginning of time, (hence why the castle keep was built on a hill int he centre of the city...)
Also most of the houses along the banks of the river had the entrances at first floor level, so when it flooded it didn't do damage to the property so easily, yep, last time I was down their I saw a number of those properties had brand new front doors at ground floor level.... well done, clap your hands for these people....

I could go on and on.... people have a habit of jumping up and down for things that affect them, when that problem always existed even before they moved there.... the people living in that village have always known about these goats, they are a tourist attraction, what can you say, well if you don't like it MOVE!!!
 
Down our way a landlord of a village pub had an asbo served on him as his cockeral was waking the weekenders up early, so he had no choice but to get rid of all his chickens.

Sorry but townies up yours, stay where you belong and stay with what you know.

The countryside is noisy and smelly either put up with it or ship out.
 
The stupid thing is, it happens in towns as well.... :D

The problem is, too many people have become so use to getting their own way with everything, that they become to expect it. I am waiting to read the news story of someone taking their local council to court for not preventing a volcano from erupting....
 
ButtonMonkey said:
Down our way a landlord of a village pub had an asbo served on him as his cockeral was waking the weekenders up early, so he had no choice but to get rid of all his chickens.

Sorry but townies up yours, stay where you belong and stay with what you know.

The countryside is noisy and smelly either put up with it or ship out.
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I can believe it...:(

We get the same here with people retiring to the seaside then complaining about the noise of the seagulls :eek: :D :D
 
Another moronic thing is to complain that the countryside, not only is bloody noisy, but smells., There is also Sh*t on the roads from the cows.
What about all the dock leaves and ragwort from the horse paddocks?
Round my way there are more sodding horses than cows - that can't be right. - put them all in kennomeat I say - least they are useful then
 
Mogwyth said:
Yep I agree. These are in effect wild animals, why should we wipe them out becuase they are inconveniant to us. Same goes for badgers, seagull and pidgeons.
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I agree, but is this really anything new? What happened to Wolves, I believed they were killed into extinction, and probably many more species, at some time in the past.

Not a very informative post I know, but this stupidity is nothing new and it seems to be the British way:(

cheers, Tim
 
We have the same problem, with Eastern Europeans coming in our garden eating the plants, ringing the church bells at all hours, and crowing at Dawn, [Our Dawns fed up with it]....
Now they have started roosting on roofs, 5hitting in the road and walking round in muddy boots leaving a mess.
We live in the country, so must expect these things. I hope the townies who have moved into the village don't have any ideas about culling:eek:
Cya
Mungo
 
mungo said:
We have the same problem, with Eastern Europeans coming in our garden eating the plants, ringing the church bells at all hours, and crowing at Dawn, [Our Dawns fed up with it]....
Now they have started roosting on roofs, 5hitting in the road and walking round in muddy boots leaving a mess.
We live in the country, so must expect these things. I hope the townies who have moved into the village don't have any ideas about culling:eek:
Cya
Mungo
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Thanks Mungo, I actually take offense about this, as I am married to an Eastern European, I know it is meant as a joke, but the reality is that some actually do think people from other countries should not be living here.
 
Well back on thread..in our village we have goats regularly wandering up and down the street, (with the goatherders). The goats move from field to field to clear the remaining crops, or the weeds, leftover brassicas whatever. Goatherders are also getting worried about the amount of pesticides being used.
And there are draught oxen, loads of horses which get tied up at the bars down the street like something out of a western, endless feral cats, and a fair amount of abandoned dogs as well. We all have rats and mice, see the other thread re mice. There are numerous sheep/goat ticks, (cat)fleas, ants, cockroaches. We live in a country village, not far from civilisation. When it changes we will be gone, and it is changing already.
When we had a cockerel, one of our British acquaintances said: "That's exactly the sort of thing I would hate and if I lived nextdoor to you I would complain about it."
It wouldn't have got her anywhere because we have full legal papers to keep whatever livestock we want, - and we aren't planning to lose those rights through lack of use. One of our neighbours did not have papers and had to get rid of goats, chickens, cockerels, and doves because someone in a nice new house had complained.
People move to the countryside for the obvious reasons, space, nice houses, tranquility etc. And they don't want the things that don't fit in that box. Kate grew up in a town, went to school in a city, and there was a farm/smallholding directly on the back of her house with pigs, horses, chickens, couple of sheep, pigeons.... She had a mix of everything, townie, city girl, farm, and played in the local fields. Seems like the right mix, bit of everything. Sadly it's all another new estate now of course.
The goats get our vote obviously.
 

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In the villiage I come from (and where my parents still live) some people moved in next to the village church. Then they complained that the bells were rung every Sunday morning (and tuesday evening for practice). And that people turned up on Saturdays for Weddings and during the week for funerals.

Heaven forbid that all this should take place in a village church!!
 
The history of mankind is one of taming the wilderness, mostly with extreme force.
Horses and sheep often get into my mother's garden but they mostly eat the grass. Goats would be a real pain, they get through most hedges and eat everything. Pidgeon's are bad too. The public park in St Albans is infested with ducks, and their **** covers 50% of everything. The problem, as wtih humans, is that there are too many of them.
Everything in moderation.
Eat half the goats.
 
baz said:
The history of mankind is one of taming the wilderness, mostly with extreme force.
Horses and sheep often get into my mother's garden but they mostly eat the grass. Goats would be a real pain, they get through most hedges and eat everything. Pidgeon's are bad too. The public park in St Albans is infested with ducks, and their **** covers 50% of everything. The problem, as wtih humans, is that there are too many of them.
Everything in moderation.
Eat half the goats.
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Which half? The half that eats, or the the half that 5hits
 
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