The Thing About Goats and GOATs ...

When it comes to competition, here’s one thing about goats (not GOATS, the commonly used acronym for the “greatest of all time”): They start out by competing in their own age group, usually in two divisions per show. They’re split into juniors, which are generally goats under two years old who are not yet being milked, and seniors, who must have been bred at least once and produce milk for commercial farms, like The Dancing Goat in Tampa. The seniors, like football players, can compete as long as they’re able to.

When any one of these animals wins any particular competition—think goat versions of the Westminster dog show—they move through what is essentially the goat playoffs, into the…