There isn’t one. I feel like you did not read the first post I made. I agree with everything you wrote, so maybe we are both disconnected.
Also, not overly emotional about things of this nature. Just a tad bit different skew is all. Only sharing my perspective. 
What do people think that “barn cats” do?
I mean, if they charge double what they paid for it, and buy a second (or just a couple of rotisserie chickens from the supermarket), they can make a profit.
This is true… maybe I should tie my Turkey out next year and see if someone offers money for it.
I think we just stumbled upon a new holiday scam, er, money-maker, I mean.
If the turkey is fancy, I’ll be your huckleberry.
How rude
Cuy Criollo, the giant guinea pig, used for meat, can reach 4 to 8 pounds
You mean, it’s about THAT goat. The one in front of you that you can see.
You seem to imply that you are indifferent to the next goat that will substitute in the slaughter line in the place of the goat you ‘save’.
So this is about your emotions. It isn’t really about goats at all (goats plural, goats in general). Only what will gratify you in the moment. The one goat is enough for that, the rest of the goats don’t count.
From doing work with people charities and animal charities I am really over this self-gratification approach to ‘helping’. People who want the world to see them making this big theatrical effort (“that’s just me”, “because that’s who I am”) over one small easy thing, while they ignore everything else and disappear from all future work.
Yes, one goat may better off (or not, it wasn’t suffering before you ‘rescued’ it) (if you follow through and don’t leave it untended in your garage or something - that kind of thing happens).
Goat-dom generally is in the same place. A lot of resources end up expended to make you feel good with not much else accomplished.
With zero perspective that, as has been pointed out in this thread, many of the backyard DIY goat raisers & slaughterers raise goats that are enjoying a pretty good life for a goat, and never know when the moment of death comes.
And zero information about the long-term future of this ‘rescued’ goat that wasn’t really rescued at all, since it wasn’t suffering and wasn’t going to suffer.
That’s my takeaway.
Look it over for condition, say “hi goat!” and mention it to the property owner if it seems that the property owner may not know it is there.
Mention that I’ll be glad to help if needed. Mean it, be ready to sidetrack my day if it turns out help is needed. But not anticipating that it will be needed.
Go on my way and mind my own business. The property owner / barn owner wherever I board my horse will have a conscience for animals. And workers and other people.
OR - Maybe this is a magical flying goat that sings? Summon the elves to alert them that this is the stolen magical goat they have been looking for.
I think it’s odd that I get this reaction from saying I would have tried to help the goat out. I am not sure who it would hurt, if I hypothetically did. Or why it seems so offensive to some.
There are so many assumptions in your post, I can at least try to address the likeness. And it seems showing compassion towards an animal makes me a certain type to you, allow me to offer some dynamic as a person to my character. Since I am totally being judged on a hypothetical offer to buy a goat 
and all.
My 2 closest friends raise and slaughter their own beef. My very best friend hunts, and is good at it. Mr. Kooky hunts. Mr. Kooky raises his cows and has them processed, just not at home as I would grow attached. Mr. Kooky purchases his pork from his friends who raise pigs. I cook meat, have no problem with people who eat meat. Or animals who eat meat. Literally, whatever eats meat is fine with me. I had been a vet tech for many years and am about to be again, helping a friend get her practice started. Also was a wildlife rehabilitator, so had to feed things to things.
I also have a small herd of sheep, that did not end up mutton. They are great pets, so what is the harm? Does that make me a horrible rescue person type? I just figured I was someone who had a soft spot for sheep.
I think it is okay to help an animal not be on a dinner plate. I think it’s also okay if you want to put them on one. I don’t judge what people do, but I sure get judged for being different.
And I don’t want attention, I was trying to stick up for the OP initially, and give an example as a person who would have offered to buy the goat. I have no social media anything, contribution to this forum is the only thing I do. And that’s pretty infrequent.
It’s bizarre, like getting mad at someone who picked up a horse off a slaughter truck. No soap box, one horse saved, what’s the problem?
Is it that hard for you to imagine that it would hurt the people who intended that goat to be a meal?
Why are you stuck on this goat being the only thing to eat or their last supper?
What in the world are you imagining are the conditions these people live in? These goat people specifically.
I could hypothetically offer to buy the goat.
They can hypothetically say yes or no.
They could make money off my soft heart or they can eat the goat.
If the goat is the only thing they have left to eat, there is a far greater problem happening at this nice facility.
Why are you imagining that eating the goat is a hardship and not something they simply want to do?
And why should they not? Why should you or anyone else interfere in their intention to kill and eat the goat?
Why is your desire “I WANT TO SAVE THE GOAT!” more important than their desire “WE WANT TO EAT THE GOAT!”
I return to my earlier complaint that you are more concerned about the goat than the human beings who, for whatever reason, intended to eat the goat. Whether it’s because of economy or celebration or culture or gluttony, they got the goat to eat it.
If you “save” the goat, I’m assuming you’re ok with them substituting a pig, or a cow, or a turkey, instead of the goat? Please explain the logic of that?
Not to be rude, but please read the unnecessary response I offered for some character content dynamic.
But okay, let me try. Again, I don’t have a problem with people eating animals. At all. Or animals eating animals. I do have a problem with animals eating people. I don’t have a problem with animals being slaughtered. I don’t have a problem with nature.
All I was saying still and initially, is that I felt some were being harsh about the OP AND if It had been me, like exactly same situation, I would have offered to buy the thing probably. Offered to buy. Hypothetically. Because I would have felt sorry for that goat. Am I allowed my feelings about a hypothetical situation? Or are you the only one?
If I heard the goat and thought it needed help, might be in trouble, I would go look. I have had goats and sheep stuck in fences, have found animals needing assistance from, “huh, that sounds funny…”.
And the goat people are welcome to eat whatever they want to.
I wish them a wide variety of delicious food, peace and good will.
People, give me a break. I am not some evil goat thieving, more rescuer than thou, vegetarian Bunnicula- like nightmare creature that feeds off the attention gained by ill begotten good deeds.
Just saying ease up on the OP. And now me too. Jeez. Lighten up folks. It’s almost freaking Christmas.
Krampus is visiting some of you this year, I see.
It’s almost freakin Christmas and you wanna interrupt someone’s Christmas freakin meal
And guess who’ll be working on Christmas Day? The barn workers (NOT grooms!) that’s who.
Exactly. If you show up the week of Christmas and “rescue” my traditional Christmas dinner, while telling me you’re horrified that I’m going to eat it… well, that’s not going to go very well.
Well, as to not further upset anyone who may be dining with the goat people, or are revolted by an offer as horrendous as it seems, I rescind my hypothetical offer to purchase said goat.
And I now know whom on Coth never to ask to hypothetically purchase a goat from. Lesson learned.
For further defense measures and to keep things dramatic, I leave Agent Starling as my proxy.
I see one person may no longer be interested, but is there anyone here who would like to rescue and/or purchase the Christmas ham I intend to eat tomorrow? Or perhaps the deviled eggs?
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