- Hello, I'm Karen Kalunian, host of Animal Talk.

Today we're visiting with Wayne Pitman and the 20 goats he lives with on a refurbished school bus known as the Goat Tote.

Wayne travels all around Rhode Island providing goatscaping to both public and private properties.

You'll watch his goats eat away at unwanted weeds and grass to help residents keep their properties safe.

Let's meet Wayne and his goats as he gives us a tour of the bus and introduces us to all of his furry friends.

(upbeat music) - A day like this, you can see this is paradise.

It could be pouring rain and if it was pouring rain, it'd still be a day in paradise.

(chuckling) So we love being out here.

The goats enjoy what they do 'cause they're eating to work and there's nothing a goat likes more to do than eat.

So it's a perfect situation for them.

This is Liberty.

She escaped from the slaughterhouse, literally escaped from, she was in the slaughterhouse and said, no, no, I'm leaving.

And she busted out and she's what started the whole living, actually living with goats.

When I got her, she didn't want to hang out with anybody but me.

So even at night she would climb up in bed with me.

So we designed everything around her and then Holly about six months later came.

She made two and I thought I would live with just two.

(chuckling) It's ended up as 20.

So where we come in, I refer to that as my mud room.

It's where I keep all my tools and stuff.

This is my little eating area.

I have a table, two benches.

They double as goat beds.

Every night there'll be two goats there, one goat here, and one goat here, one goat under the table.

Two goats sleep on my bed, Holly and Liberty.

But during the day, the bigger goats like to get up there and enjoy the nice comfortable memory foam mattress.

I do have a door on the bed, but during the day I leave it down so they can enjoy it.

This is my kitchen area.

I just have everything set up funky at the moment.

But there is a stove under there and there's a sink under that board.

This bed was designed so the big goats couldn't get on it.

Which, design failed.

I thought they couldn't get on it 'cause they couldn't stand up, but they crawl up there.

I did make the lower part of the bunk more accessible for the goats.

Instead of having a mattress, it's just a wide open floor.

(upbeat music) This is the goat area.

I thought it would be great for them to have an open space.

I have 20 goats.

I thought the more open space the better.

That was a bad idea.

I am going to be adding bunk beds back here because of the 20 goats 13 of them sleep up front with me.

And I don't think it's me.

I think it's because they have different levels to sleep on in their own private spaces.

So I'm gonna try to give them that back here and maybe I'll have room to walk at night.

(chuckling) They don't provide me with much space.

Come on guys.

(clapping hands) These guys do not want to be that hot in August.

Huh?

(goat shuffling) This is Genora.

Hi Genora.

She has two sisters here.

One of them is Eska right behind you.

Come on, Genora, push Eska.

And the other one is Toff, the one with half a horn.

Toff is next to Ang, which is her son.

Hey Marty.

So this is Toff and this is Ang.

This is Rayvon.

He's probably our oldest goat on this crew.

He has been doing the goatscaping thing as long as me.

We started together eight years ago.

We did a dam in Woonsocket and he was there and he still enjoys coming out goatscaping.

Even though most of his friends have retired, he likes to come out.

Huh, buddy?

Once a goat comes to the sanctuary, they're there for life.

Come on.

(clapping hands) These guys all have a retirement plan just like people.

When they can no longer do it or they no longer wanna do it, we let them stay at the sanctuary.

(goats braying) (upbeat music) - [Karen] To watch more videos like this, visit ripbs.org/animaltalk.