A goat that kept animal control officers busy trying to capture him Sunday remains on the loose after “head butting” a concrete statue of a horse at a residence on Lake Say-Hi Sunday morning.

Jimmy Laska said his dogs started barking outside his home Mother’s Day morning and much to his amazement, there stood a “huge” goat playing havoc with the concrete statue. Laska snapped a photograph of the “billy goat,” which he estimates weighs between 175 and 200 pounds. He estimates the distance between the tips of the goat’s horns to be four or five feet.

“By the time I got the camera, he had ceased pummeling chips from my horse’s head,” Laska said. “When I snapped the pic, he had moved a few feet away, but head to head he stood taller than the horse.’

Laska said a deputy came by his residence in pursuit of the goat and told him that he had been called to Prince Chevrolet on U.S. Highway 82 where the goat had seen his own reflection in a window and began butting the glass.

That incident couldn’t be confirmed Monday, but Regenia Wells, the Tifton-Tift County Animal Shelter director, said that Tift County Manager Bill Park called her at 8 a.m. Sunday to report the goat on a rampage. She and fellow animal control officer Angel Partain chased the goat from Carpenter Road to the Harley Davidson business off I-75 near Lake Say-Hi. The goat kept hiding in wooded areas and the two gave up the chase at 1 p.m. near City Limits on Carpenter Road. Then around 5 or 6 p.m. Sunday, they got another call that the goat had been spotted on King Road.

“We chased him down King and Carpenter roads,” Wells said. “He had to be tired because we were.

“He crossed both highways, 319 and 82. We need to name him Lucky.”

Tift County Extension Agent Keith Rucker said a yellow tag pictured on the goat is probably a farmer’s internal system for keeping up with the animals and the tag doesn’t identify the goat in any data base.

Anyone who identifies the goat as theirs is urged to call 382-PETS (7387). Anyone who spots the goat should call E-911 and talk with a dispatcher to report the sighting.

To contact city editor Angie Thompson, call 382-4321.