DO NOT get goats. I live in southern Arizona. My daughter wanted a pair of miniature goats as pets. They were housed on one acre of heavily vegetated desert. They destroyed all the desert broom plants, half of the creosote bushes, and a lot of the prickly pear. They even ate all the spines off of the saguaro cacti as high as they could reach. This was on top of the hay and pelleted feed they got.