Goats employed for fire control found to be in 'horrid condition'

Oakland Tribune | September 25, 2006| | Copyright

After a visit to the Web site of Sustainable Solutions, a firm that hires out goats to devour weeds and underbrush, viewers are bound to leave impressed by the firm's commitment to ecologically- sound land management and animal husbandry.

A visit to its herd of goats, however, tells a different story.

On Aug. 26, two officers from the Peninsula Humane Society found 61 of the company's goats in what one officer called "horrid condition."A horseback rider discovered the gaunt animals, where they'd been huddled for two days in cramped pens without food and water, on Alpine Road in Portola ...

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