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10-07-2012, 02:15 PM
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Goat in basement near Grande Prairie
Looks like this goat got a little lost, this was at a new house west of Grande Prairie, maybe 8-10km north of the wapiti river which would be what he likely followed down out of the hills. Either way its a long ways from where he should be. F&W tranqed him and took him back where he belongs. Now if they are wandering minimum 100km from any kinda hills they should be on, why are there only 6 tags a year in AB....
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10-07-2012, 02:18 PM
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Goats sometimes wander....nothing new here, it doesn't mean we better start shooting more of them....
not that I think hunting is the limiting factor on goats...I'm just saying.
Cool pics BTW.
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10-07-2012, 02:21 PM
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Pretty awesome stuff!!
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10-07-2012, 02:37 PM
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pretty neat pics.
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10-07-2012, 04:17 PM
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Would I have been charged if I killed and ate this home invader?
Goats don't need the mountains to survive. Many places have viable populations of forest dwelling RM goats, even Alberta.
Thanks for the pics. 
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10-07-2012, 04:23 PM
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I thought I had to go to the mountains to hunt goats, I just need to go to gp.
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10-07-2012, 04:37 PM
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Geez....Marco makes those look so real and alive! 
Just kidding, cool pics for sure.
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10-07-2012, 04:45 PM
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I seen a few years back pics in the game warden mag of a goat up in the loft of some ones shop who had left the door open in the same area around GP. I think it was that mag.
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10-07-2012, 04:47 PM
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Those are some pretty neat pics, not something you see everyday.
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10-07-2012, 04:52 PM
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I've gotta admit that I was comparing the first three pics to try to determine if the goat was a mount or not. I guess that I should have went right to the fourth one.......lol!
Cool pics. Thanks for sharing!
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10-08-2012, 07:36 AM
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Thanks for the pics! Poor little fella might have been looking for love. I know I've travelled a long way looking for love in my younger days!! 
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10-08-2012, 10:12 AM
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A friend of mine has a picture of goat on the roof of a barn a long time ago. That was about where costco is these days.
They follow the rivers, narraway and wapiti, and end up where they shouldn't be. I heard a few reports of them around beaverlodge.
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10-08-2012, 04:31 PM
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Crazy goat.
My grandpa said they use to see them out to Big Mtn creek every year.
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10-09-2012, 11:46 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by st99
A friend of mine has a picture of goat on the roof of a barn a long time ago. That was about where costco is these days.
They follow the rivers, narraway and wapiti, and end up where they shouldn't be. I heard a few reports of them around beaverlodge.
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There was one hangeing around Elmworth for a couple of years. Buddy of mine has a picture of him out feeding in a grain field alongside elk and deer. F&W became concerned he might get poached so they tranquilized him and moved him.
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10-09-2012, 11:58 AM
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Awesome
There are groups of goats north and west of Gp. I'm not surprised there's goats wandering the in between.
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10-09-2012, 12:04 PM
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Are they close to any kinda hills at all?
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10-09-2012, 12:29 PM
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Never seen too many of them when I was working in GP...seen 2 north of D Creek tho. Pretty KOOL photo op for sure. Thanks for posting !!
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10-09-2012, 01:37 PM
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That would be something to see. Wrap him in bacon and carry him out :P
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10-09-2012, 01:48 PM
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Quote:
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That would be something to see. Wrap him in bacon and carry him out :P
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10-09-2012, 02:41 PM
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Hate to be a downer, but if they tranquilized that goat, chances are he is already dead.
Mountain goats have one of the highest rates of capture myopathy among all ungulates (afaik), and it appears to be compounded by the use of tranquilizers.
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10-09-2012, 06:44 PM
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Pretty cool, I would have never guessed one would wander so far.
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10-09-2012, 06:47 PM
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Things wander....
Who remembers the big horn that was out by Buck Lake?
I have persoanlly seen antelope in Ponoka and Nisku.
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UPDATE!!!!
I was out elk hunting south of GP today...And what do i find! 7 damn goats!!! looked like some big billies to!
These suckers are around 100km from the mountains and i think they live there....Where i found them is VERY rugged. And they were in two groups, separated by about 5km...
I found where they live boys!!!!
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10-09-2012, 07:50 PM
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