Sometimes exercise can get your goat…

IT was a gruff workout for two goats who tried to kid their way into getting free gym membership at Curves, in Ennis, this week.

On Saturday, the two goats showed they weren’t afraid of exercise having climbed the 20-step staircase to the gym at West Gate Business Park but after they saw what the action was like in Curves, they weren’t prepared to leave in a hurry.

Claudia Nicholson was working when the two goats arrived in for a look-around.
“It was heart-warming and it made all our days. It was a nice situation even though the exercise extended to a bit of a clean-up afterwards,” she said.

The two goats weren’t kidding around – they seemed intent on getting in some exercise having already paid a visit to the P&M Golf Superstore before deciding on Curves.
“They were wandering around the business park on Saturday morning, they went in to the golf shop and people there thought they were seeing things. When I arrived at Curves for work…  some of the members said to me, there’s someone to see me. They had come upstairs, which is at least 20 steps and they laid down at the top of the stairs and made themselves comfortable. In the meantime, I rang Frankie Coote. Before Frankie arrived, they walked into the gym, walking in on seven or eight ladies who were using the gym. They let loose. One of them was fond of an exercise mat and had a pee. It was a bit of fun,” Claudia recalled.

Claudia said they were only curious about what the gym had to offer and were very friendly but they did frighten the ladies in the beginning.
“We were petting them. Never had anything like that happen, the most might have been a dog wandering up but nothing like that,” Claudia concluded.
Clare’s dog warden, Frankie Coote explained the two goats were removed having liased with the Department of Agriculture and as the animals were untagged and have not been claimed, they have been rehomed.