{"id":17249,"date":"2026-04-23T18:06:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17249"},"modified":"2026-04-23T18:06:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:06:54","slug":"18-pet-goats-likely-killed-by-dogs-not-shot-as-first-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17249","title":{"rendered":"18 pet goats likely killed by dogs, not shot as first thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 18 pet goats\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/crime-and-justice\/592982\/18-pet-goats-shot-dead-in-north-waikato-paddock\">killed on a north Waikato property<\/a>\u00a0last week were likely attacked and killed by dogs rather than shot as initially thought.<\/p>\n<p>The goats were found dead on a property on Ridge Road, P\u014dkeno, overnight on 13 April and their bodies left at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police says an investigation has found a gun was not used to kill them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Animal deaths like these can often present in the same way, and while we are pleased to learn the goats haven&#8217;t been shot, there are still 18 pet goats that have been killed,&#8221; Detective Senior Sergeant Natalie Nelson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police have been working alongside Waikato District Council Animal Management and we are following positive lines of enquiry to identify the dogs responsible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Animal management will now deal with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 18 pet goats\u00a0killed on a north Waikato property\u00a0last week were likely attacked and killed by dogs rather than shot as initially thought. The goats were found dead on a property on Ridge Road, P\u014dkeno, overnight on 13 April and their bodies left at the scene. Police says an investigation has found a gun was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17251,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17249\/revisions\/17251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}