Goats

I don't know much about goats, but when my neighbor got a fainting goat for Christmas, I started thinking about them. The video says they were one of the first domesticated animals, however the fainting goats seem more a novelty than anything functional.
This also brought back my childhood memories of the "Goatman".

He came through the small town where I lived when I was about 5 and 6 years old. Everybody would turn out to see the goatman. He was also a novelty and a sight and smell you would never forget.