Mysterious Animals Roaming Geauga County, Ohio
Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 19th, 2007
What are these animals being seen in Geauga County, Ohio? Why are they in Ohio?
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Goat Antelopes.
Look like goats to me?
I’m going to guess female mouflon (a Eurasian sheep).
Don’t know if they’re kept as exotic pets; as livestock; or even on hunting preserves as are a number of other exotic hoofed species, both in the US and elsewhere.
They look like female bighorn sheep. I’m not familiar with the mouflon, so it could be that. They look very like bighorn sheep seen here in the west.
Blob deer.
Actually those aren’t deer, but some kind of goat/sheep - plenty of people raise exotics and plenty escape - we are still looking for an escaped buffalo in our neighborhood, who’s been roaming the around for 9 months now.
fallofrain:
The mouflon is probably the European analogue to the bighorn.
Here’s a pic of a ram.
hey loren, very interesting new article about mysterious animals prowling ohio forests. thanks bill green. encounters of sasquatch creatures are realy popular in ohio as well.
Here’s a link to a page of mouflon photos on the web site of a German farm sanctuary.
http://www.heimat-fuer-tiere.de/english/gallery/mufflon.shtml
The fourth photo down features two individuals, and to me these look fairly similar to the subjects in the photo from Cleveland.
A quick google search of Geauga County, Ohio turned up the business “Maple Hill Farm Exotics” in the town of Novelty (I like the town name). It specializes in “Sport and Exotic Sheep.” That’d be my guess as a place to start if anyone wants to pursue it further.
Geauga Co. looks like a nice place to visit.
The only thing that I’m wondering is if the one with horns isn’t the male, then why doesn’t the other one have horns? I don’t think they are mouflons, although while googling pics I saw an ad for hunting them in Texas, so they are at least here in America. I was a little curious if there was possibly some interbreeding here. The one with horns definitely looks big horn sheepish, but the other one looks more deer-like. They are only cousins, and usually locale and decent numbers of their own kind keep them from thinking of mating. But if I was the only big horn sheepish thing somewhere in the middle of deer heaven, those does (female deer) would start looking pretty good.
But how does it taste?
Joppa, lost buffalo? You must live in one BIG neighborhood.
Yep, it’s a moufflon.