Homeowners in idyllic village say feral goats are destroying gardens and damaging property.
"They are very fond of roses and very good at getting over any defences one can put up," said retired teacher Jim Chatterton.
The traditional Welsh slates were broken and dislodged by goats leaping on to the low roof of the property, and have now been replaced with unbreakable tiles.Just one of the goats making a lunch stop in the garden of Dinorwig resident Dr Stel Farrar Another resident said she had just had to replace a car headlamp after a goat's horn went through the glass, while another found a goat had fallen through a skylight in an outbuilding, and then smashed through another window to escape.
"The oak trees there are very old ones, and you do see before the goats come along the little oak seedlings, but they never get further than that."The Dinorwig woodland has been a listed site of special scientific interest since the 1960s, partly because of the type of oak that grows on the slate hillside, known as sessile oak - where acorns grow directly on twigs, without a stem.
A cull of most of the animals was carried out by marksmen back in 2006 as part of a wider programme to control feral goat numbers across the county.
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