These cops were on the bleat.
Canadian police racing to save a screaming child instead found a very different kind of kid — a goat with its head trapped in a fence crying out for help.
Cops were dispatched to a woodland area in Ottawa late last month after an alarming emergency call reporting a child crying out for help.
“Officers searched in the dark but didn’t hear anything, nor did they find a child in distress,” the Ottawa Police Service said in a statement this week.
A woman in a nearby house told officers that her three children were safe and accounted for — but her husband noted that his goat had gotten its head stuck in a fence earlier that day and was causing a racket.
“The farmer said the sound could be mistaken for a child screaming,” the force said.
When the officers went to check out the goat, they found it had been trapped “exactly where the complainant reported the sound coming from.”
The police called it a case of “four-legged kid has baaaad day,” but said the false alarm didn’t get their goat.
“All kidding aside, police are reminding residents to report suspicious activity immediately so we can check it out,” the force said.
“It’s always better to be safe than sorry.”
It was hardly the first time an alarming call to police turned out to be a harmless animal.
Late last year, cops in Florida rushed to a house after neighbors reported hearing a woman screaming inside — only to find a green parrot named Rambo that had been taught to say “Help! Help!” and “Let me out!”