Goat Rescue of Sonoma County

I met Ken and Nancy a few days ago, and spent a full 12-​hour-​day with them, travelling around, observing what they do, and meeting the goats. It is obvious that Ken and Nancy truly care for the welfare of the goats, and will bend over backwards for them. I can say with certainty that Ken and Nancy’s ultimate goal IS truly to give the goats a good life, and a good forever home, and keep them off the dinner table.
I am disappointed in the obvious lack of community support from the sour individuals who have commented on this thread. Ken and Nancy have been doing the best they can since 2007, and their knowledge on goat keeping and care is immense. If indeed their land was too small for keeping goats, and if indeed there were safety issues for the goats around their home, rather than being bullies with highschool mentalities, perhaps a little help would have been nice.
These individuals are heroes to many goats. Something tells me the people who are bad-​talking them are individuals who support the slaughter of these animals. Hmm…

Do not donate to them!!! Here is a few articles, and even a new clip about these crazy people.
They should be put in jail for animal cruelty.
Goats are pets? Then take care of them like they should be!!!

Since the last post, I was sent a Craigslist post from this group requesting donations, as they have moved the goats to someone’s property and are looking for a place to rent so they can have their goats back. The property after much work and some «safety“issues being resolved, has been put on the market as an REO as a foreclosure. They blamed the neighbors but had they maintained the goats and the property I doubt anyone would have minded, except for the quantity and smell associated with a small residential plot covered with over 100 goats. It even made the KGO news. I feel bad for the goats, but apparently nothing can be done. Expect the goats are at least in an agricultural area now and safer.

The whole experience for this place was weird to us.
We were looking for a pair of goats for pets/​lawn mowers. All of the breeding places were very expensive and so we decided to attempt to adopt a couple of goats who might need a home.
We called this goat rescue and were told to ‘come on over’ and they had over 60 goats and that we would find what we were looking for. We did find the 60 goats, but we also found a piece of property littered with junk and garbage, and goats. The people were more interested in telling us all of their names than helping us find a goat.
I wanted to get the goats from this place, just to get the goats to a better home. Don’t get me wrong, they are all well fed and seemed happy but the place is over populated that’s for sure.
The people wanted the same price to adopt a goat as the breeders wanted for show quality goats with papers! The entire time we were walking around they kept saying how great we were and that they know they have to many goats and they just want the goats to be happy. Well that’s hard to believe because I made them a pretty reasonable offer on 2 goats and they flat out said they wanted more money. If you care so much about the goats, wouldn’t you let them go to a good home? If you are a non profit rescue, you should be trying to place animals, not sell them for a stack of cash.
Anyway, we ended up finding two sweet, healthy awesome goats on Craigslist for way cheaper that the adoption or the breeders, so it all worked out for us!