As you may have suspected, I DO have some experience with goats!
Once, in the early 80's, I actually worked at a place and during the general low brow chit chatter of the various other paycheck-to-paycheck punchclocks, one of my co-workers axed if anybody wanted a free goat...We were very poor at the time, so anything 'free' piqued my interest...It was a nanny goat, white, weighed about 50lbs, had a pair of 6" horns attached to its head, square pupils in its eyes......
Well, it was a dangerous 50 mile drive home in my Plymouth Volare Station wagon with that goat bouncing around all over the place! Yelling and screaming like a backseat full of kids, peeing and crappping, and trying to stab me in the head with her clown stickers! Sorta like what a Chicago cab driver or a soccer Mom has to put up with I imagine.
Yes, goats are amazing! They will eat anything and keep your yard nice an tidy as if you had a lawn service Co. there daily! For free! I let our goat range and roam at will unfenced undisciplined, and heres what I noticed...
They do like to climb, and my goat preferred the high vantage point of any parked car in my yard, so that was also a benefit that discouraged riffraff from staying too long...like peddlers, meter readers, nosy neighbors, uninvited folks that want to tell me about Jesus, visiting inlaws, etc...
Anybody that rolled up into my place, and Zip! before they even had a chance to get out of their vehicle, They had a goat stomping around on top of their car taking a big dump right on the hood!...So that was good..
In retrospect of my time with a goat, doing an honest +/- assessment...The +'s for having a goat around win!.....cant say this about Mrs Mud, and I doubt she would judge me in favor either!...goats cant cook and I hate yard work..
addendum: an actual Northern MN Grey Wolf ate my goat!.. there wasnt a damn thing left! Not even the horns or the hooves! Evidently goats are quite succulent as well..