is this by the 1/2 hour or the hour???
Posted on 04/10/2015 8:23:48 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
When Amazon launched its Amazon Home Services this week, the stars of the new initiative were …
Goats.
Seattle goats, specifically, ready to trim back your pesky shrubbery.
“We bring the goats and unload him,” said Tammy Dunakin, head goat wrangler and owner of Rent-A-Ruminant LLC. “The second they hit the ground, they’re eating. It’s incredible to watch. It’s kind of like watching marbles scatter when you drop them on the pavement. And the goats start eating everything in sight."
And it sounds like ...
Dunakin's goats do work for the city – you may have seen them munching on hills alongside Interstate 5. Others goats have done work for Seattle City Light, clearing brush and opening pathways to steep rocky slopes.
In a statement in 2006, landscape supervisor Betsey Searing explained why City Light chose goats to clear a slope: "The alternatives of clearing brush mechanically or with pesticides were rejected."
"The slope is steep with large, irregular rocks, making it dangerous for people to work safely,” Searing said. “Mechanical equipment cannot reach far enough to do the job. It would require a large amount of herbicide to kill the vegetation and would leave a large mass of dry vegetation that could be a fire hazard. There also could be a danger of overspray reaching adjacent property."
Amazon approached Dunakin to list her service, and she readily agreed.
“You know the hardest part of any business is usually getting customers,” Dunakin said. “I felt like it was a really great way to educate people that this is out there, because it's going to get a huge amount of viewing, and it benefits me and it benefits the industry.”
Dunakin heard from prospective customers on the day of the launch – she said her email just blew up.
“We'll see how many jobs actually come out of that,” she said. But mostly, she was tickled by the newfound fame.
“They actually called me and said, ‘You’re kind of a celebrity in our Amazon office right now because you’re getting so many hits.’”
That’s hilarious. Been laughing for a few minutes at that.
is this by the 1/2 hour or the hour???
I’d get a goat but it would clean up my land then chew the vinyl siding off my house, chew my cedar fence and wreck my AC pump unit and electricute itself chewing on the wires.
I had one when I was a kid and it rammed me off the garage roof!
Got up there by the wood pile.
LoL, why did people want to rent pigs? Maybe a town joke about a Mayor or something.
Wild turkeys CAN fly - they roost in trees.
That said, I never laughed so hard in my life as when I saw that scene the first time.
Our city puts a herd of goats in the empty lot at the end of our street once a year to “mow” it down. It’s less than 24 hours, and then they move on to a neighboring hillside that is unmowable due to steep terrain.
I love it. We get to see the cute animals, and then they go home before they do anything annoying.
Is this a muzzle version of “It’s Just Lunch”?
Goats are not as benign as writers like to make them out to be.
We live in a CA town which switched from mechanical mowers to goats to maintain a local park. We used to walk our dogs there, and discovered that when goats ate 18” high grass and weeds, they left behind a 2” layer of little goat berries, i.e. goat dung.
From a distance, this looks just fine, but up close it is a nightmare. And don’t even ask about what happens in the rain, when dried pellets become reconstituted goat manure.
Do you know what you call a raghead with a goat under one arm and a sheep under the other? BISEXUAL.
Google Italian Ibex Goats (images) and take a look. Fantastic climbers!
“theyre doing the jobs...illegal aliens wont do”
The real trick must be getting the portable fencing up and down quickly so they work where you want them to...
Still, big congrats to the owner of this business. She saw an opportunity and is apparently providing a service people want and is probably making good money doing it.
I do wonder about the goats' droppings. How long does it take a goat to clear off a hillside of brush? (He asks rhetorically.)
It’s from the mini-series “Lonesome Dove.” Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones amongst others. Great mini-series.
That explains why I didn’t recognize it, I don’t watch TV.
“I had one when I was a kid and it rammed me off the garage roof!”
Me too. The thing followed me around like a dog. My grandfather turned his back on it once, then he never did it again. Man did he nail the poor old guy.
She might use dogs to herd her goats:
I never watched it on T.V. I bought the DVD. good movie.
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