History Main / ExtremeOmnigoat

The general portrayal in fiction that all goats are Type 2 {{Extreme Omnivore}}s, able and willing to eat anything and everything. If anyone brings a goat into a story, there's a good chance that it will eat something important that it wasn't supposed to. This is normally PlayedForLaughs, but can also be used in more dramatic works where the goat's hunger causes serious, long-term problems for the characters.

* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': One episode involves the entire payroll being eaten by a goat (which had been bought by Klinger on the grounds of it being economically sound -- he could, after all, get fresh milk from it). This causes numerous problems for the unit, as they must convince superiors that they [[RefugeInAudacity lost their money because a goat ate it]], and one character had taken a loan from another at a ludicrous interest rate on the assumption that he would be able to pay it back pretty much the next day. An inspector investigates the claim, and does not believe it. However, the staff arrange for the goat to get access to some very important paperwork the inspector is working on, and she promptly eats it as expected. Now, faced with the same story to tell his superiors about the paperwork, the inspector is forced to accept the payroll loss claim.

* The song "Paddy [=McGinty=]'s Goat", though his preference was largely for clothing, especially the back of people's outfits.