goats
Environmentally friendly AND cute? We’ll take that over a heavy, noisy lawn mower any day!
We discovered an unexpected sight during a recent trip to an IKEA in the suburbs of Tokyo.
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If you need a furry friend that also doubles as an eco-friendly lawnmower, this is for you.
Whether you’re creeped out by or love goats’ rectangular pupils, you probably didn’t know this about them.
Earlier this month we saw what was beleived to be the first ISIS-inspired murder in Japan when a group of teenagers brutally killed a fellow classmate. However it has recently come to light that in the middle of February, a different group of Tokyo middle school students broke into an elementary school with the intent of murdering the school pet goat as “practice” for killing a fellow human being.
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