Butte barflies may have thought they’d had one too many when a goat walked in to one tavern.   

A patron called to complain early one Sunday that somebody brought a female pygmy goat into an unidentified Butte bar.

The Montana Standard reports an animal control officer picked up the goat outside the bar and took it to a shelter.

Chelsea Bailey Animal Shelter Supervisor Jacki Casagranda says if the owner doesn’t come forward soon, shelter workers will begin the process to adopt it.

Casangranda says it’s the first time an impounded goat has been brought to the shelter.

The shelter workers are calling the goat Shirley, and they say she is sweet and friendly.

Source: The Montana Standard, http://www.mtstandard.com

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My Dog Ate It – Honest!

The Montana man whose dog ate $500 says he’s going to find a better place to stash his cash when he travels.

Wayne Klinkel tells the Independent Record he doesn’t carry a wallet on his chiropractor’s advice.

Sundance, his 12-year-old golden retriever, ate the bills during a visit to the Klinkels’ daughter in Denver last Christmas.

Sundance was left alone in the car with five $100 bills and a $1 bill when they stopped for dinner.

The dog dined on the $100 bills, but left the dollar.

Klinkel says he collected fragments from the dog’s droppings. His daughter found more when the snow melted.

He says he washed the remnants of the bills and sent them taped together to the Treasury Department in hopes of having them replaced. Good luck with that…

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The Walking Dead

A Montana television station’s regular programming was interrupted by news of a zombie apocalypse.

The Montana Television Network says hackers broke into the Emergency Alert System of Great Falls affiliate KRTV and its CW station.

KRTV says on its website the hackers broadcast that “dead bodies are rising from their graves” in several Montana counties.

The alert claimed the bodies were “attacking the living” and warned people not to “approach or apprehend these bodies as they are extremely dangerous.”

The network says there is no emergency and its engineers are investigating.

A call to KRTV was referred to a Montana Television Network executive in Bozeman. Jon Saunders didn’t immediately return a call for comment.

The Great Falls Tribune reports the hoax alert generated at least four calls to police to see if it was true.