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My husband said he saw a goat while walking the dog earlier this week. Then, Wednesday I saw a too-tall-to-be goat (immediately I thought it was a small llama) leaping across the derelict lot on Beach and AlaKai ( the one with old containers and vans strewn about) when I was walking dog in evening. Today my dog starts barking and again, down our driveway, the brown not-goat nor llama runs right By our porch (luckily the dog was inside). Has anyone seen this on the Makuu end of HPP?
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Beach and AlaKai
Do you mean Ala Heiau? On the curve?
I'm going for a walk tonight! With a camera!
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Yes. Ala Heiau, but I'm not close to that and it just ran by here. And I had a camera (iPad) in hand but it was so quick....
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"I saw a too-tall-to-be goat"
Probably not:
https://www.google.com/search?q=giant+goat+breeds&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
ETA: scroll down to the images banner where you see the goats are taller than the people
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the goats are taller than the people
terracore,
You might have just changed my mind about that walk...
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If it's a large goat, that's definitely not a "feral" or "wild" animal, there is somebody looking for it and the animal is probably friendly.
Probably.
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Yes, I wanted to follow it, until I thought about it....too many Alaskan close-calls... but I went directly to the back jungle (whence it came) and it hadn't eaten anything fueling my not-goat theory. My husband said it had a rope or lead that he was going to tie it with on Monday, so I believe it may be someone's (unless there's two)...
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Years ago I did some work for a couple living off the mauka side of Ala Heiau near the end. They had a young pet goat (who they adored). Thinking back I believe there may have been a lot full of abandoned cars and weeds near their house. Perhaps it could be their pet who escaped?
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It's a sheared sheep. It was on our property 3rd&Makuu a few days ago. Tried to approach it to get the rope, but couldn't get near it. It kept running away, full gallop, like a little horse. Finally it took off down the street at full speed toward Makuu. I put a pic up on HPP Next Door Facebook page. Don't know how to share a pic if you're not on FB. I was told it was a sheep bc "tail up, goat; tail down, sheep." Should've called Humane Society but I didn't know what to do - our dogs were going ballistic and I was afraid someone was going to get hurt. I hope its owner sees one of these posts and goes to find it.
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I saw someone posting about it on HPP facebook group. They got a picture of it, its a sheep.
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