Baby got back

Every so often I see men trailing goats behind them by grasping the
animal's front legs. Yesterday I finally had the chance to ask Dereje
about this. "They are showing the goat off. You can't really see the
shape well when it's just standing, so they do this to see the animal.
Especially, people look to see if the goat has a fat tail." Indeed, some
of the goats in the herd we were passing had quite pudgy backsides.
A little further down the road, we were driving behind a man who was
cradling a goat and walking it toward a car, seeming as if he was going
to place the animal in the backseat. As we passed them, another car
anchored toward the curb and blocked the man holding the goat, enough
that the man lost his grip. I looked behind us and saw the man chasing
after the goat as it ran away, apparently wise to the designs on its
life. The goat scrambled to get lost in the herd again, but it had a big
fat tail that would give it away in the end, I'm sure.