Pato it was the rudder not the vertical stabilizer that was still there.

Interesting

My husband and I once two years ago saw this huge 70 pound cat with its belly dragging the ground, with a long tail, but was not black like a panther, was not a bobcat cause it had a long tail, we are honestly not sure what it was it was not a mountain lion cause it was a darker brown.

Forget the goats,the weirdest thing I remember of late ,was walking up to the shops and seeing everyone in masks,walking along looking at their mobile phones with funny white plugs half hanging out of their ears,and carrying empty plastic bags ..WIERD!Edited 02-Oct-22 01:00am

One day when my mother lived here, she told me she saw about 15 goats standing in a circle staring at something. She went to see what was going on and found a koala sitting in the middle of the circle.

I think it sounds very intriguing !

It's natural for most animals to react to weather. Horses will turn their backs to the wind or rain while birds huddle together. Can't say I've paid much attention to cows, which is odd as I used to have them just about at my back door, but they probably do the same.

Hilarious

Perhaps they heard something from afar

We need the wise words of goat wisdom from Pato lo Goat!!! or maybe they were ladies and a studly man goat was strutting by in the distance!Edited 30-Sep-22 20:45pm

I have no idea of the significance of what you saw.

Animals have good instincts, be like them!!

I'm going on maybe the weather

Dont know

I look in the mirror and see a weird sight. Don't know much about goats

Goats are real characters. All animals are extremely perceptive to all elements

They may have been looking at something. They often do that. Love goats.

How much noise was your car making. Animals like goats and sheep have good hearing and will stop and wait to see what's coming. They too have road rules!

Watching an F111 land with no rudder, it broke of doing a mach 2 turn.

Where have you been? Nothing odd about that!

facing out of the wind

Facing out of the wind .Clever Goats

I have no idea at all

I have never noticed this before so I can't really comment.

I was told that if you are sailing a boat on a lake and there are cattle in the hills around you use them for steering....they all face into the wind....maybe its the same with goats?.....

They probably heard an accordion playing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMCIEtC-tJk

I have noticed with farm sheep all looking in the same direction ,I figured they're looking out for coyotes or wolves. But not sure!

I have noticed this too with cows & goats. They can feel even the slightest earthquake too and know changes that are happening with the weather way before we do.

Yes animals know what to do in bad weather, it is a built in instinct taught to them by their mothers. Survival tactics and keeping themselves safe. I heard of a calf been struct dead by lightening and the mother had twins so at least she still had 1 calf look after. Sad though but it is nature in the raw.

A lot of herding, four legged livestock animals face their bums to the wind/rain to keep the rest of their bodies warmer. I've seen horses do this often in rainy weather and sometimes cows. I'm guessing goats have this habit too. Only strange thing I've seen on the road is dyed sheep of multiple colours on drive up from Auckland to Northland. I think they used their sheep to grab attention and advertise a cafe or something.

I get the same sort of sensation when I walk into the women's change room at the local swimming pool. They all scream and turn in the same direction.

If you want to see something weird look at a creek that generally has little to no water in it and you hear what sounds like thunder coming towards you which is actually a flash flood and the water is caring cattle more than slightly upset about being washed away from where they had been standing and complaining loudly. You are running as fast as you can so you do not join the cattle and there is nothing you can do to stop them disappearing over the horizon along with the wave of water caring them.

most animals still have their natural instincts so they know what the weather will do. Humans unfortunately lose this as they age

I think most animals face into the wind to know what's out there. Friend or Foe.

Why is a beautiful goat the devils pet? There’s a reason animals do things we just don’t understand we just assume. Animals are exploited by humans.

No, animals are not the evil ones.... it sounds like a myth to me. I have seen cattle face the same way, turning away from an on coming storm.

dont know what to say

no so dose horses they all face the wind they stand for the longest time with out moving some goats climb the high mountains in wales and never fall off this has never been explained

Maybe one who has goats on this site, can help. I have asked for her to give us the benefit of her knowledge.

I was reading online that apparently G.O.A.T stands for the Greatest of All Time. Praise indeed :-) Here's an Aesop's fable 'Goatherd and the Goat' retold in online poem form and renamed 'Got something to Hide by Bob B?' As the day was drawing to a close,The late afternoon was turning cold. A goatherd summoned all his goats togetherIn order to return them to the fold.Suddenly, one goat chose to strayAnd didn't want to join up with the rest. The goatherd knew that if they didn't hurry,They would not get home till dusk at best. He shouted, but the goat ignored his orders.Furious, he threw a heavy stoneAnd hit the goat, breaking one of its horns. The goatherd then let out a fearful moan."Oh, no! I'm in trouble now!" he cried."For me, this is going to mean disaster."Distraught, he begged the poor goat not to say A word about his actions to their master."Don't be stupid," said the rebellious goat."My broken horn would stand out in the herd As if to cry out, 'Hey there, look at me!'Even if I didn't say a word."So here is some advice for you, my friend:Hiding certain things is not forbidden, But you will come off looking like a fool If you try to hide what can't be hidden."Edited 30-Sep-22 09:39am

Never had that experience, very interesting, maybe they could sense the rain coming as you said.

Why do you cast Goats as "The Devil's Pet"? There is no proof that the Devil, God. Allah. Yahweh or any other deities actually exist. Check out the very basic source of the three occidental religions: The Bible. Written by, for and of men and casts women as the property, the chattels of men, it even sets women aside, hidden behind a thick, screen during religious observances, Why? So that Men are not distracted from their interaction with THEIR God! Goats are beautiful creatures the females are gentle, the males are, like so many in the animal world - including us - are protective, and, yes, aggressive if we interfere with them. If you believe in a deity and the existence of the "Devil" look no further than our own species to see it - both female and male.

Maybe they were trying to get your goat ;)

Weird sights can be common. To see a walking tree, a lot of us have seen this as they are known as a Banana tree. They take 1 step a year.

Perhaps the goat is your spirt animal and it’s trying to tell you something if you’ve seen that a few times

That's strange be interesting to find out why

They might be on alert for any danger. Their hearing are more acute to ours.

Have never heard that giats do that, cows yes...

what type of goat is this?Edited 30-Sep-22 08:14am

They must be bowing to their God {Rain God so to speak}

Actually, it was all the goats getting together when they saw you coming and conspiring, “What can we do to really unnerve the next person who comes over the hill?”

Many animals will face away from the rain (bum towards the rain) if they can't find shelter while many humans still seem to act inappropriately in bad weather conditions. I do not see the goats doing that as strange. I would consider a weird sight some of the ways people chose to be "covid safe" during the start of the pandemic- (think large bottles or buckets over their heads, wearing hazmat suits to the shops, etc)

The cows do it around here when it's about to rain!

Goats are like people.

Paul B is correct - any animals out in the open when bad weather is coming will do the same.

Sounds like the patrons at the local pub, they run in herds and look in the same direction, fixated at the bar.

Walk down the street, you'll see strange.

They turn their backs to the wind

maybe they were all males and horny, and maybe a drop dead gorgeous female goat was nibbling on grass over in that direction,, where's Pato you you need a goat expert,, ;-)

HOW ABOUT U TALK ABOUT THE SITE HERE LIKE WHY DID I GET 59 LINES AND ONLY 18 POINTS GOOD QUESTION HUH

I see lots of sheep before

Lol

As prey animals, they are very vigilant. They would probably have heard something and be watching for what alerted them, hence all facing the same direction and still.

Stop thinking negatively. Maybe he was an angel?

Myself in the mirror each and every morning.

Aha! Listening to voices that only they can hear....................

Naked cowboy

Worked on a horse farm that had goats. Not very nice.

Goats are not very smart. Having had goats growing up they most likely were just eating and staring.

YOU SEE EM' VERY RARELY, BUT YOU'LL NEVER FORGET EM'.

I am a city boy (actual inner-city boy aka growing up and becoming an ultra-cynical male). Never heard the expression that a goat is the devil's pet. Not sure what point(s) you were trying to make (?). However, I am going with weird sights. The weirdest sight I have ever seen (in my lifetime) is the USA masquerading as a democracy (HAHA) - with former president Trump being the re-incarnation of a right-wing dictator (sad but true) - LOL!Edited 30-Sep-22 06:41am

It's a pack mentality. Cows and horses do the same thing at times as do sheep. Normal behaviour.

I hope not I like the look of goats

There was a predator around.

Maybe they were all looking at something funny

Who knows??