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    2 days ago

    It says that they found fox droppings, but, then, some years back I remember when they hired a company to have a herd of goats graze their lawn down at the Googleplex, and that has to be worse on that front.

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/google-rents-goats-to-mow-the-lawn-11402182/

    Instead of using noisy mowers that run on gasoline and pollute the air, we’ve rented some goats from California Grazing to do the job for us (we’re not “kidding”). A herder brings about 200 goats and they spend roughly a week with us at Google, eating the grass and fertilizing at the same time. The goats are herded with the help of Jen, a border collie. It costs us about the same as mowing, and goats are a lot cuter to watch than lawn mowers.