A Michigan farm, Idyll, thought it would do the civic-minded thing and lent 15 goats to Detroit to mow grass the natural way in the one-time Motor City on the many city-owned tallgrass vacant lots there.
But a Detroit animal inspector forced the hungry goats out of town, citing some arcane law that was probably put in place when the city had nearly two million residents and animal waste was an understandable health concern. But Detroit only has about 700,000 people now.
The animal control department in Detroit should zero in on the feral dog problem there instead.
Oh, the goats were not unionized--perhaps that's the real issue here.
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Detroit east: Wildlife encroaches on Buffalo's thousands of vacant lots
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