Let’s Goat Crazy!

And he shrugs off suggestions that Seattle's newest mascot could factor in "a luau backyard barbecue of piglets and goats," as Woods describes it. (She swears she's received frantic calls about these species being butchered and eaten in White Center.) "We've got no evidence that folks would be doing anything other than possibly milking these guys," Jordan says.

Needless to say, breeders couldn't be more excited about a possible change in Seattle law. "It's more potential customers," says Karen Crawford. She's already received a call from one Seattleite, who wanted to keep a goat on the balcony of a 13-floor apartment. She declined to sell.

Kevin P. Casey

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