Goats graze Friday in a pen beside Sugar’s Ribs near the ridge cut.Question: Whatever happened to Chattanooga’s kudzu-eating goats?
Answer: They were ditched after city budget cuts.
The lovable, frolicking kudzu-eating goats first came into the public eye in 2006 when the Chattanooga City Council OK’d a goat handler for the Department of Public Works.
The city found one, and each year for almost four years the goats were trucked to the steep sides of Missionary Ridge and staked out to chomp on hard-to-reach kudzu.
“They worked, and they worked effectively,” Public Works Administrator Steve Leach said.