Around 3:45 a.m. Thursday, a Cobb County resident heard a knock on her door. It was Marietta police telling her that her goats had escaped.
"My hair was standing straight up when the officer said it," Cobb resident Sarah Skeean told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "He must have seen some things to not even flinch."
Skeean, a teacher at Walton High School in East Cobb, recently moved to the Marietta area and hired 30 goats to help clean up some yard work at her new home.
She rented the herd from getyourgoatsrental.com for a four-day period to eat up the kudzu, ivy, magnolias and other greens.
But on their first night in the neighborhood, all 30 goats escaped from a part of Skeean's fence found lifted off the ground.
Five or six officers along with Skeean, her husband and the goats' owner helped herd the goats—who wandered a couple blocks away near Whitlock Drive—into a neighbor's backyard.
On the Marietta City Neighborhood Group Facebook page, Skeean thanked the police officers and neighbors for their patience and help during the "embarrassing" fiasco.
The policemen told Skeean that if the animals got out again, it's possible she would be fined nearly $200 per goat, so Skeean sent the goats back with the owner.
But she really does miss them, she said.
"Yesterday, my husband and I were just looking outside the front porch where the goats would stay and it just looked kind of empty."
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