Photo: Courtesy of Heather Macdonald Moe
PEMBROKE, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — Heather Macdonald Moe was at work Wednesday when she heard there was a bear in her Pembroke neighborhood that had eaten someone's chicken. What was her first thought?
"Oh my god, the goats are out," Moe recalled to WBZ NewsRadio Sunday.
Moe immediately checked her home surveillance and saw footage of a large black bear chasing her beloved pet goats, Ingrid and Piper, around her yard, knocking into patio furniture.
"I freaked out," Moe said.
Luckily, the goats left the encounter unscathed.
"He just took off without harming them, which is unbelievable," said Moe. "We felt so, so fortunate they don’t have a scratch on them. He probably could have got the goats if he wanted to, I’m sure. But he got spooked and ran off."
Days after the confrontation, Moe told WBZ that not only are Ingrid and Piper still rattled, she's a bit spooked too.
"I go out there and I’m, like, looking around," she said. "[The goats are] both a little unglued from the experience, they’re still not themselves."
The bear also broke Moe's six-foot-tall fence that surrounds her yard when it climbed over for Wednesday's chase, so she's ordered an electric fence to replace it. In the meantime, Moe is taking some precaution in case any bears make another pit stop at her house while she's outside.
"I bring a couple of pan lids so I can crash them together," Moe said. "I heard that they are deterred by noise. I don’t know that for sure, but I don’t want to find out."
WBZ's Suzanne Sausville (@WBZSausville) reports.
Follow WBZ NewsRadio: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | iHeartmedia App | TikTok