[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Local landscape contractors in Seattle, Washington, are apparently losing jobs to Tammy Dunakin, owner of Vashon Island's Rent-A-Ruminant, a company that uses goats to clear brush on landscape clients’ properties. Since she started her business in 2004, it has grown from only several goats, to a herd of more than 130. Sure-footed goats can easily overcome steep or difficult terrain, and goats produce no emissions, no erosion and no chemical run-off, she says.[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Several professional landscape contractors are complaining that they are losing jobs to the goats, and there is a problem with goat droppings the animals leave behind. But Dunakin remains undaunted. [/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]"I will not be satisfied until goats are doing all the landscaping jobs in this country," Dunakin told a reporter from Comedy Central’s "The Colbert Report." The goats are able to work 24 hours a day, can easily get to places that machinery and people can't safely reach and are good for the environment. Best of all, the goats cost $2,500 to work an acre that would cost a human crew $10,000.â€[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]A landscape manager at a local condominium complex hired a herd of goats from Dunakin to clear 12 acres of steeply sloped hills. The total cost was 75% less than human-based work and much more effective. "The weeds didn't have a chance," he said.[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Several professional landscape contractors are complaining that they are losing jobs to the goats, and there is a problem with goat droppings the animals leave behind. But Dunakin remains undaunted. [/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]"I will not be satisfied until goats are doing all the landscaping jobs in this country," Dunakin told a reporter from Comedy Central’s "The Colbert Report." The goats are able to work 24 hours a day, can easily get to places that machinery and people can't safely reach and are good for the environment. Best of all, the goats cost $2,500 to work an acre that would cost a human crew $10,000.â€[/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]A landscape manager at a local condominium complex hired a herd of goats from Dunakin to clear 12 acres of steeply sloped hills. The total cost was 75% less than human-based work and much more effective. "The weeds didn't have a chance," he said.[/FONT]