--- description: Jennifer Garner needed a way to get rid of the rats and the ivy on her Los Angeles property, and somehow, the answer to that was goats. title: See why Jennifer Garner rented 120 goats image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b53fe7d26035da6/698760e85f570f615eb12bba/jennifer-garner-goats.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # See Why Jennifer Garner Rented 120 Goats by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 15, 2014 2:05 PM CUT  Actress Jennifer Garner arrives on the red carpet for the 86th Academy Awards on March 2nd, 2014 in Hollywood. Actress Jennifer Garner arrives on the red carpet for the 86th Academy Awards on March 2nd, 2014 in Hollywood.Robyn Beck—AFP/Getty Images by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 15, 2014 2:05 PM CUT Jennifer Garner needed a way to get rid of the rats and the ivy on her Los Angeles property, and somehow, the answer was goats, she told Conan O’Brien Tuesday evening. She rented the goats to eat up the ivy growing on her grounds, which also took care of the rat problem she was having because the rats were living in the ivy. The only downside to having the goats was that they were pretty loud. And while they may have done the trick once, Garner says the ivy has since grown back. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3509997/jennifer-garner-goats/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3509997/jennifer-garner-goats/"},"headline":"See Why Jennifer Garner Rented 120 Goats","datePublished":"2014-10-15T14:05:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:47:58.276Z","description":"Garner rented the goats to care for her property","url":"https://time.com/3509997/jennifer-garner-goats/","keywords":["Television","Late Night","Goats","Ben Affleck","Jennifer garner","Funny","conan"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b53fe7d26035da6/698760e85f570f615eb12bba/jennifer-garner-goats.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b53fe7d26035da6/698760e85f570f615eb12bba/jennifer-garner-goats.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Actress Jennifer Garner arrives on the red carpet for the 86th Academy Awards on March 2nd, 2014 in Hollywood.","caption":"Actress Jennifer Garner arrives on the red carpet for the 86th Academy Awards on March 2nd, 2014 in Hollywood.","creditText":"Robyn Beck—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3509997/jennifer-garner-goats/","name":"See Why Jennifer Garner Rented 120 Goats"}}]}] ```