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09-11-2014, 04:00 PM
I got more information from the guy who took the photo. He saw them (and took the photo) just this past weekend. He insisted that they were in remote area with no other people around (that he knew of...).
The photographer was elk hunting when he saw the goats, and his original question was whether it was legal to shoot feral goats. I advised him against it, saying they may well have been someone's lost pack goats. I was skeptical that, with the large number of predators living here in WA (wolves, bears, cougars, coyotes), goats could survive very long in the wild - unless they were in steep, rocky country (which these weren't).
The photographer was elk hunting when he saw the goats, and his original question was whether it was legal to shoot feral goats. I advised him against it, saying they may well have been someone's lost pack goats. I was skeptical that, with the large number of predators living here in WA (wolves, bears, cougars, coyotes), goats could survive very long in the wild - unless they were in steep, rocky country (which these weren't).