Three of the goats used by the city of Coeur d’Alene for weed control were stabbed at a city well, leaving one nearly decapitated and a second mortally wounded. Police are investigating the animal abuse and asking the public for help in solving the crime, which occurred Monday night or Tuesday morning at the Honeysuckle well on Kathleen Avenue near Coeur d’Alene High School. “It’s awful,” said Jim Markley, superintendent of the water department. Quintin Forte, who rents out the goats to property owners, removed his remaining goats from the fenced well site. One of the injured animals had to be put down, and another was seriously hurt, he said. “I never would have thought in a million years I would have a problem like this, you know,” said Forte, who runs Green Goat Rentals from his farm near Hayden Lake/Scott Maben, SR. More here. (SR file photo: Goats from Green Goat Rentals munch on hay at a farm in Hayden in August 2012)

• Also: Goats killed in ''heinous' attack/David Cole, Coeur d'Alene Press