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When this goat escaped she decided to stop by Starbucks for a quick energy boost. The police department who posted these pictures were searching for the owner and had this to say:

Missing a goat?

Imagine our dispatcher's surprise when she received a couple of calls early this morning advising there was a goat roaming around Wolf Den Plaza... more specifically, the goat apparently needed a caffeine fix and had wandered INTO the Wolf Den Starbucks.

The on duty sergeant promptly responded, took the goat into custody, and transported him to the Rohnert Park Animal Shelter. We're sure the Animal Shelter supervisor will be thrilled to find a goat in a dog's crate when she arrives to work!

Of course, Facebook commenters made jokes about it:



But eventually she was reunited with her owner. 

Warning: The startled man in the video uses some NSFW language.

Intrepid zebras made their escape on Sunday, local police reported that they came from a circus in town and that they managed to round them up and bring them back.


via @PhillyFireNews

It looks like the zebras were just killing time and getting to know the locals before their show.


via @Key_BlackBeauty

AND WHEN I GET OUT, YOU SHALL BE THE FIRST TO DIE!

An octopus recently tried and failed to make a break for it at the Seattle Aquarium.

The 8-legged beast climbed up his tank and nearly made it over the edge before a member of the staff thwarted his plans.

He was probably just hungry and headed for the crab tank. Or he was jealous of some his cellmates who were recently granted their freedom.

A few weeks ago, the aquarium successfully mated Franklin and Hazel who met on an octopus “blind date” before releasing them back into the wild.

Here’s video footage of the two being set free below a pier.

I realize the song was an obvious choice, but still, that song.

For Benji the pug, there is no fence too tall to climb! He's got important things to do, like...