No beer allegedly costs goat its life

WAUPACA, Wis., Nov. 22 (UPI) -- A Wisconsin man faces three charges after allegedly shooting a pet goat because his wife wouldn't bring beer home for him.

Police records in Waupaca, Wis., said Peter Mischler, 48, came home from hunting on Saturday. He allegedly became angry his daughter had let two pet goats out of their pens, the Appleton (Wis.) Post Crescent reported.

As his 22-year-old daughter was speaking with her mother on the phone, Mischler told his wife to bring beer home, but she arrived without it, the records said.

The women told police Mischler went outside and they heard four gunshots. They called police, and Mischler disappeared. Officers arrived and found one of the goats mortally wounded, and it was put down by an officer, the report said.

Mischer was later found a local bar, and was arrested and charged with mistreatment of animals, possession of a firearm while intoxicated and disorderly conduct with a dangerous weapon, the newspaper said.

The fate of the second goat was not revealed by the complaint, the report said.