18/09/2025
Cruelty on display ~Forgotten and misunderstood
While a majority of people these days accept tethering a goat alone indefinitely is cruel and outdated a minority continue to subject these sentient animals to an existence on the end of a chain . This practice is so contrary to good welfare and care of these animals, placing them in vulnerable positions, lack of proper and fresh feed ( being browsers they require a wide variety of plant material to maintain health ) , ill thrift due to being expected to chew grass right down is also unnatural for them , worm burdens ,long boring days devoid of any company so very wrong for such a social herd animal , water is most always lacking in these cases .
Goats deserve and need better legal protection . A friendly , social intelligent animal that bonds with humans , akin to dogs with hooves . Animal Welfare laws and regulations must be consistent for all species , it's not good practice to have one species given protection from indefinite tethering/ chaining and leaving other species out when they all suffer the same , all are sentient. Enforcement of what weak laws there are is also lacking , it's not good enough to send inspectors to these complaints that don't have knowledge of goats or that don't check their body conditions and hooves , that is doing them a disservice.
Tethered goats cannot display normal patterns of behavior at all and in many instances it's just reckless ill treatment of an animal.
We will continue to advocate for them and push for this outdated cruelty to be consigned to history once and for all .
