First some goats showed up mysteriously in Peggy Sturdivant’s neighborhood, then a few days later she discovers more goats snacking on foliage a few blocks away along 64th Ave. “Whether these goats are on loan to deal with bushes or are now residents in the neighborhood, I don’t know yet,” she writes. Last year the city council voted to allow residents to keep miniature goats as pets.

Update: A My Ballard reader, who asked to remain anonymous, says the goats are at her house. “We rented them for landscape clearing so that we could begin to put in a retaining wall. It seemed a much greener option and far less polluting than hiring a gardener.” This one is named Kiki and the other is Myra. “Kiki is quite friendly and will let people pet her. Myra is a bit skittish and might not, and passers by should keep their dogs back a bit and be careful of the horns.” She says they rented them from “the goat lady” and plan to keep them around for a week or longer, depending on their progress.