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Ever since Travis the Chimp went ape-crap (lol) and mauled that lady, the media is looking for more exotic household pets to look at and go, “NO! BAD!” Thus, we meet Gigi the Goat (who can be seen here).

Meet Gigi, the Nigerian dwarf goat living in the house of a South Milwaukee family.

“She’s not really a goat. She’s part of our family,” Gail Krug said.

She also really is a goat, and the South Milwaukee Health Department wants her gone.

“I think of a goat as a farm animal, whether it’s a pygmy goat or a farm goat,” city public health administrator Jackie Ove said.

Gail Krug’s 23-year-old son, Kevin, bought the black goat at St. Martin’s Fair for $100 a year and a half ago.

Gigi was just a week old and less than 3 pounds. Today she’s full grown at 18 inches tall and 50 pounds.

Kevin at first bottle-fed Gigi; now she’s on a diet of mostly grain pellets and hay. “Basically, she eats everything except metal. And she doesn’t like pickles,” Kevin said.

Gigi tried to munch my notebook and jacket when I met her last week. She chewed on the remnants of a Mylar balloon, happily swallowing the shreds. It sounded strange to hear hooves clicking across the living room hardwood floor. She has horns, and at one point she head-butted a reclining chair, which was both scary and entertaining.

“She likes to watch Jerry Springer,” Gail said. “She hops up on the recliner.”

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