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What happens when a bunch of trespassing goats spoils your garden, eats its flowers or runs wild in the streets? Does anyone hear your distress call? Are the authorities concerned? Well, if the behaviour of a herd of hungry Kashmiri goats is anything to go by in a town in Wales, the local civic authorities do not want to pick up the gauntlet in tackling the animals.

They may be a nuisance but they can do nothing to check them. Instead, the civic councillors say it is the landowners’ job to protect themselves from the ‘marauding’ creatures.

The residents of Llandudno are, however, not happy. They want tough action against the irritating animals, who cause disaster when they stray from their mountainside home.

The animals have been devouring garden hedges, munching flowers, running wild through the town and even fighting in supermarket car parks.

But the local residents’ plea is likely to go in vain. There seems to be a reason why the council is hesitant in taking stringent action against the animals: there is a touch of royalty to them.

They say the goats have roamed in a wild state for over 100 years and were originally a gift to Lord Mostyn, a reputed Welsh dignitary, from Queen Victoria, according to a report in a section of the British media.

More than 200 of the goats regularly leave the Great Orme headland to have a free run of the streets.