hi you guys its 38 in ice 68 in kviv oh 45 here 58 in the barn sweets did good last night i got 5 hours of sleep so happy with that and he peed twice drank lots of water i gave him and he ate one peanut butter and cheese cracker and little hay not much but some his last shot is today i want jim to call vet get more med sweets and jim agreed does alot better one that one same side but we are going to get him other side today just for a little bit let him be on his good side at night cause i told jim if you put on that other side i am going to bed tonight and you get sleep next to him oh he goes on his good side at night. i am really about ready to go see dr buzzard get something for my right hip just see what is wrong with me. jim leaves for florida next monday for ford for the week so stressed out there both of us. sweets alert eyes look good we read it can take a really long time to get them back be nice to know what is wrong with him for sure.
on the news showed a goat like sweets stuck on kc busy bridge owners saw this and it was their goat they came and got him had proof he was theirs they live like an hour more up north than here she said they called him a mountain goat hmm
Mountain goat stuck under Kansas City bridge survives rocky rescue
BY HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH
Updated 7:03 PM CDT, April 9, 2024
An escaped mountain goat that somehow got stuck under a Kansas City bridge has survived a rocky rescue effort and now may be reunited with the owners who suspect he was stolen from their farm two months ago.
“It’s the story that captured the hearts of Kansas City,” said Tori Fugate, of the KC Pet Project, a nonprofit that handles animal control for the city and operates shelters. “Forget a solar eclipse. We were on goat watch.”
After Monday’s eclipse, people spotted the animal, believed to be a missing goat named Chug, hopping around on the pillars that support the bridge, high above the ground below.
Hoping to guide it to safety, a driver managed to get a rope around the goat’s neck, but that only added to the danger, Fugate said. When firefighters tried to rappel over the side of the bridge to capture the goat, he spooked and tried to jump to the next platform. But his hooves slipped and the rope caught, causing the goat to hang from his neck, not moving.
Firefighters managed to undo a snag in the rope, creating slack in the line. The goat then fell as much as 15 feet (4.5 meters) to the ground, landing in a spot where crews had added padding in an attempt to soften the impact, Fugate said.
“He miraculously has no broken bones,” Fugate said. The goat had been clambering along bridge supports that are as much as 80 feet (24 meters) above the ground, a fall he wouldn’t have survived, she said.
She said this was just the latest part of the goat’s adventure. He entered the shelter as a stray on March 13, was dubbed Jeffrey and was adopted later that month. But he immediately jumped the fence at his new home, she said.
“Thanks to his media fame, yesterday we had somebody reach out and they said that he is very similar to their goat that went missing back in February,” she said.
The family lives two hours away and plans to came to come to the shelter Wednesday to confirm he is their stolen goat. If he is, they plan to bring Chug home with them, and the goat’s adoptive owners say that is OK with them.
“He seems to be very particular about his living situation,” Fugate said.
