Summary:

A woman responded to a Secondhand listing seeking homes for three goats owned by Glenn D’Hondt of Erpe-Mere, claiming she was a volunteer at Huppeldepup care farm in Grimbergen and took the animals away. When Glenn phoned the care farm to check on the goats, manager Ellen Van Assche was surprised — the farm had not taken them in — and involved the police.

Authorities traced the woman to Chièvres and were told she had offered the goats to an animal shelter in Zemst, where her 73-year-old mother was found and cooperated. Police blocked the woman’s van and obtained the fraudster’s details; the goats Rosa, Suzy, and Marie were returned to Glenn, who plans to keep them.