I refused to be deterred, and I think it's a testament to the sort of friends I have that I didn't believe her and went on staring at walls, unfazed.
"NO! REALLY! There's a goat in your backyard!," she chortled.
And there was.

I started to doubt my life choices when it climbed onto my patio furniture.
And...that my friends, is how I met my new, four legged neighbor.