thanks everyone. death is a part of life and the consolation for
   me is that: he had a good life. Goats are, in the animal
   kingdom, prey rather than predator. (you can tell - animals with
   eyes in the front (like humans) are predators, those facing
   sideways (like goats, rabbits, chickens) are prey - because they
   always have to take a lookout). So if he was in the natural
   world, he probably wouldn't have lived as long and as well as he
   did. "