Yesterday Pam referenced that she would kind of like to have a goat. I thought that sounded like fun and decided to do a little research to discover if we can keep a goat on our property in the great village of Plover. Unfortunately, from my reading of the ordinance we aren’t allowed to have a goat in residence on our property (here’s the ordinance). That stinks.
While reading about goats I was struck by the specific list of exotic animals that are forbidden from being housed in the village of Plover. Here’s the list:
- All poisonous animals, including rear-fang snakes.
- All nonhuman primates, including but not limited to apes, chimpanzees, gibbons, gorillas, orangutans and siamangs.
- Baboons.
- Bears.
- Bison.
- Cheetahs.
- Constrictor snakes.
- Coyotes.
- Crocodilians.
- Deer.
- Elephants.
- Game cocks and other fighting birds.
- Hippopotami.
- Hyenas.
- Jaguars.
- Leopards.
- Lions.
- Lynxes.
- Monkeys, either old world or new world.
- Ostriches.
- Pumas.
- Rhinoceroses.
- Sharks.
- Snakes not naturally indigenous to Portage County.
- Snow leopards.
- Swine.
- Tigers.
- Wolves and wolf hybrids.
I’ve emphasized the ones that I personally think are funny. Obviously, the village board has these in the ordinance because they are concerned there is a very real possibility of someone in the village thinking “You know what would class up this place? A hippopotamus in the front year. I’m going to get me one of them.”
