The Times Herald (Norristown, PA)
Goat rams through sliding glass door, naps inside bathroom
CLEVELAND >> An Ohio homeowner never envisioned becoming semifamous because of a goat butting its way into her home and taking a nap in her bathroom.
“This is the most random story in the world,” Jennifer Keathley said Tuesday, breaking out into laughter.
The break-in happened Friday when an escaped ram from a farm several miles away repeatedly butted against a sliding glass door, breaking into the Keathley family home in Ashland County’s Sullivan Township.
Keathley’s 18-year-old son, Logan, discovered the goat in the bathroom when he returned home from school around Friday afternoon to broken glass in the house.
Much of the break-in was recorded on the Keathley’s home surveillance camera.
Two Ashland County Sheriff’s deputies unsuccessfully tried to coax the ram, named Big Boy, out of the home with carrots, a dog bone and grass. They eventually grabbed him by the horns and dragged him outside where they secured him in a dog cage.
Keathley put a message out for a missing goat on a community Facebook page and received a reply with the owner’s name and number. The apologetic owner arrived that evening and, with Keathley’s husband’s help, loaded him onto a livestock trailer for his ride home.