Goats

Goats are little animals with horns and pointy beards. They have antlers, cloven hooves and make a strange bleating sound. Physically, they resemble pygmy cross-breed between a sheep and an antelope. Female goats give milk, which may also be used in some forms of cheese. The meat of a goat is also consumable, but this is not a particularly favorable standard of culinary fare in Western culture. Dinosaurs however, specifically a Tyrannosaurus Rex, has absolutely no problem lunching down on a goat tied to a stick, though as Doctor Alan Grant once so eloquently put it, "T-Rex doesn't want to be fed, he wants to hunt".

Goats may also appear in various Satanic rituals, often being used as part of an animal sacrifice. Werewolves also tend to find goats as a tasty snack.

In film

 * A Nightmare on Elm Street: Inexplicably, goats seem to appear in the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series for no discernible reason. Characters who suffer from a nightmare will often witness a goat in the vicinity. The presence of such an animal often foreshadowed the arrival of Freddy Krueger.
 * Nightmare on Elm Street, A (1984): Christina Gray saw a bleating goat with a bell around its neck during a nightmare sequence.
 * Freddy vs. Jason: Blake Mueller saw a goat with a bloody beard standing in front of his house in a nightmare sequence. Shortly thereafter, Freddy Krueger tried to kill, but was not strong enough yet.


 * Jurassic Park: The staff at Jurassic Park tethered a goat in the animal paddock to feed it to a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Doctor Alan Grant scoffed at the notion of feeding a predator that prefers to hunt. Later, after the T-Rex had his fill, young Lex Murphy saw the bloody nylon straps and queried, "What happened to the goat?".

In comics

 * Tomb of Dracula: Once, while stranded in the Transylvanian Alps and starving for blood, the vampire Dracula was forced to sup upon the blood of a mountain goat. After killing the beast, he allowed his prisoner, Rachel van Helsing, to dine upon its flesh.