Meet The Goats

ATTN GOAT LOVERS, WE NEED YOU:

As you may know, I’ve owned goats in Louisville Metro for 7 years. Betty & Boon have been walking, eating invasives & bringing joy to Clifton since 2021, without incident or complaint.

We do education work at Louisville Free Public Library Branches & local schools and are even featured on a multisensory mural by Liz Richter Art across from the Kentucky School For the Blind.

On Christmas Eve WDRB News ran a story about Susie who, after 15 years of lawful ownership of a mini horse, was suddenly no longer in compliance. This was the only way I, and other goat owners, found out about Ordinance No. 178-2025, passed in October by Louisville Metro Council.

This ordinance primarily pertained to dog & cat micro-chipping. Somehow, tucked deep in the bill, was an amendment drastically changing livestock ownership-like mine-making it no longer legal on less than .5 acres.

No public discussion. No warning. Not even full awareness from the bill’s own co-sponsors, who have stated they had no idea the amendment was included. No one can say who added it or why.

If enforced as written, Betty & Boon would be gone. No more goat walks or visits or education. No one wants that.

We are NOT asking for something new, we do NOT want a grandfathering clause. We are simply asking to go back to the previous, long standing language excepting goats, goat kids, sheep & mini horses from land requirements. It was perfectly clear already.

Want to help? Make noise. Write YOUR councilperson about what this means to YOU. SIGN our petition. Share, share, share. There's not a lot of bad news we can't do anything about. This we can.

Check us out on in the news and a great local article. See the other good work that'll also end by Kentuckiana Backyard Farms & Butterfly Valley Rescue & Sanctuary for their stories and backyard livestock goodness that'll also end if this isn't reversed.

Meet The Goats: Betty and Boon are Nigoras, a cross between Nigerian Dwarf goats, a small milk breed, & Angora goats, a fiber breed. Crossing them changes the fiber produced from mohair to a kind of cashmere.

Betty is 3/4 Nigerian Dwarf, 1/4 Angora. Boon is 1/2 Angora, 1/2 Nigerian Dwarf. I harvest their fiber once per year, in early spring, by combing out the undercoat. It is washed, carded & then used in many Bri Weaves works!