I think it's the sweet part that made our human decide to keep him. His first year, he got to be with Mabel in the "love shack". They had three skinny, funny little dairy-looking kids. The human even went out and brought home three girls just for Goliath the next year. I admit he does make big beautiful babies, including my grandkids, Sugar and Spice.
He would alway be yelling for food or attention. It would start quiet and keep building volume until is was the most god-awful-someone-is-killing-the-beast yell. Maybe it's just quieter without him.
No, that isn't why it's boring without him though. He had a way of acting out to get attention. He liked to beat his head against the cattle panel fences. Unlike my musical head-banging, he would beat them up to get out. He would lift the gate off its hinges, which is how I got the grandkids, Sugar and Spice. He would break the chain holding the gate shut.
It was entertaining to see how he was going to get our human to give him attention next. This winter, when he got snowed in, he started beating on the walls of the lean-to. He knocked one board completely loose (The human was not happy about that).
Any time he could, Goliath would follow behind the human rubbing his face up and down her hip. He would bounce like a kid and stand on his back legs, making him six feet tall. That is what really got him sent away--not realizing that he was so big and strong and wanting to play like he was a little kid. That one-hundred eighty-five pound goat could do a lot of damage to a fence or a human. He didn't mean any harm, he just didn't know the damage he was doing.
Even though I do miss him, it's still not quiet because the big booming voice he inherited from his dad was passed down to Goliath's kids. But it was fun to watch him beating on the fence.
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