A video posted to a neighbourhood Facebook group showed the goat dashing down a sidewalk, next to parked cars.
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In a scene that could only be described as a surprise, a Vancouver mother returned home Friday night to find police wrestling a billy goat in the bushes next to her Mount Pleasant apartment building.
“It was very shocking because I don’t know of anywhere or anyone around here that would have a goat,” said Denise Mitchell.
Mitchell came upon the sight while entering her building’s car park in the 400 block of Great Northern Way at around 8:30 p.m. with her two children. Five uniformed officers attempted to corral the large goat.
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“The goat even tried to get away, but one officer had it by the horns and another had a leash around him,” said Mitchell.
Neighbours gathered, laughter mixing with the bleats, as the officers restrained the goat, bringing it down a hill and safely loading the animal into the back of a police vehicle.
“It’s not every day that you see cops wrangle a goat,” said Mitchell.
Vancouver Police Deputy Chief Howard Chow said the spectacle unfolded after the detachment received a few reports of a rogue goat roaming the neighbourhood at around 7:15 p.m.
A video posted to a neighbourhood Facebook group showed the goat dashing down a sidewalk, next to parked cars.
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Chow lauded a few residents in the neighbourhood who took it upon themselves to track the goat, who was stuck in a thorn bush next to St. Francis Xavier Church when police arrived.
“Some of #VancouversFinest were able to corral and bring it to an officer’s family farm, while we track down the owner,” Chow posted Saturday on X.
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The mystery remains as to where the goat came from.
“No one would take the goat off our hands,” Chow said Saturday. “So, one of our officers has a family farm out in Abbotsford and we took it there.”
Police and the B.C. SPCA are hoping they can reunite the animal with its owner.
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