If you're ever on the drive from Kingston to Prince Edward County, you may want to pop into a store that’s grabbing some attention.
The store is called Loyalist Trading Company, and it can be found in Conway, Ont., on Highway 33 in Greater Napanee.
The two goats—Lenny and Grover—have been living and eating on top of the building for five years now. They access the roof from a ramp up from the ground where their barn is. For the past five years they’ve been greeting and delighting customers traveling down the waterfront road.“That is amazing,” she says of seeing the goats. “It’s unbelievable, it’s awesome.”
Owner Sandy Cook makes and sells her own line of products in the store, as well as a range of Canadian-made goods. She says more than 40 years ago she saw a shop with goats on the roof in the United States, and dreamed about doing it here ever since.“My husband looked at me, and he said ‘Honey, we’re running out of time. Are we going to put goats on the roof?’ And I said ‘Well, looks like we’re buying a country store,” she laughs.
On the visit, you can feed the goats, using a pulley system the Cooks have made, by buying food they provide. “If they see someone coming into the parking lot, because I guess it’s the thing to do,” she says. “That’s their job.”
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