"Billy Bob The Goat" Seeks New Home As Owner Loses Farm To Foreclosure

In Woodbury, Minnesota, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports:

• Until recently, Billy Bob led a comfortable life with a loving family on a farm in rural Minnesota. Then his family lost its farm in the foreclosure mess that's sweeping the nation. Reluctantly, they sent their pet goat packing.

• Today Billy Bob's life has truly gone to the dogs. The 5-year-old lives next to several canines in a kennel at an animal shelter in Woodbury. "They said he's like a dog with horns," said Stacy Arvidson, manager of the Woodbury animal shelter.

• Animal Humane Society officials said Billy Bob is the latest casualty of the economic downturn that's not only hurting humans but also leaving thousands of dogs, cats, birds and farm animals across the nation and the Upper Midwest without homes.

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• In recent months the society has been getting more inquiries from hobby farm owners who are facing foreclosure or other economic hardships. Many can no longer afford to feed their horses or donkeys. Unlike Billy Bob the goat or the occasional city-bred pet chicken, those animals are too large for most shelters, [Animal Humane Society's Cindy] Johnson said, so their owners are steered to rescue groups such as the Minnesota Hooved Animal Rescue Foundation in Zimmerman.

For more, see Billy Bob the goat is feeling a little gruff: He's homeless.

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