Anyone raise goats?

There are 3 goats next door.  I don't thing they are pygmy goats, but they are small goats - shorter than our malinois who is 22" at the shoulder.  And they LOVE to climb on my neighbor's full sized pick up truck.  I've even seen them on top of the cab. 
 
They did get out of the fence once, so I think that was a fluke.  But the female goat often gets her head stuck in the fence. 

From what I've read (I almost got a couple of goats, once), you put shingled a frames in their pen, and they file their own nails. They LOVE to climb. Billy goats sound harder to own, because of their stinky pee, and amazing inability to not nail themselves with it, and because of thier.... desires. If I had one, I'd have him castrated.

I don't think they're too hard. My aunt had them for years, and she's completely dense.

I had a couple of goats when I was younger. I don't remember the breed but they were normal sized ones. One of things I rember is that they lovede to chew and would grab my hair when I wasn't looking. They were fun and a great family pet but also good for milk, we would take the goat milk to my aunt who then made cheese out of it. They did have to be milked every day to keep the milk comming. They don't kick like horses and are good with kids. They are also a good companion pet for other animals, a person I know who has a horse also has a goat for their horse so it doesn't get lonely. At the time I had my goats I also had an ausssi who loved to heard. We never trained her to do this but once in a while the goats would get out and our dog would round them up and keep them in a corner till we could get to them.

My parents have Nigerian Dwarf goats and they have never jumped the fence....what ever height the standard chain link.....four feet I think.  They do jump on top of stuff..once I was in there and was sitting on a tree stump,not only would they jump up in my lap for some love but once I bent over to pick up a cookie from the gound one jumped on my back....it was funny.  They give them animal crackers (a couple of crackers \ "cookies") a day.  One has no horns and that is the best....the other will try to hook you...he thinks he is playing but it isn't funny   Good luck.

I have 4 Nigerian Dwarf goats, and I guess you could say I raised them because I had 2 does that had kids. But I've never owned a buck, only a whethers, which are castrated ones.
 
They don't jump over the fence, except at one spot that they can stand on a big rock and jump a couple feet over from there. They won't be able to jump over a fence unless they have something to get up onto and jump off of. But yes, ours do climb on top of the cars! At least they did when I used to let them out all the time. Now they stay in their pen all of the time, and have the pasture to roam around in, but  they don't get out anymore. Mostly because Cassidy chases them back in automatically if she sees them out. They could get out of their pen by going under the fences or through some gates, but that was only because there were wide enough gaps in them. Because of their sharp hooves, they left a lot of scratches on the vehicles, so this is not good, and if you have nice cars, don't let them out where they would be able to jump on the car! Fortunately, the cars we had then were pretty old, and we didn't care a whole lot. Not all goats do this, I guess, but there's a chance they will, just so you know. They also like to climb on the hay we had stacked, but they will pee and poop on that. Since Pygmy goats do love to climb on stuff, if possible give them something to jump on. Right now we have big rocks for them and they play on those. They also like tree stumps.

Yes, we do trim their hooves, and it's not that hard once you get the hang of it. Unless you have a very tame goat that will stand still ( like a milking goat, maybe), we have one person hold the goats ( just sit or kneel on the ground and grab them in your arms) and the other trim the hooves. We actually just use regular garden trimmers ( like for bushes or small shoots) to do their hooves, they work good. We don't do them as often as we probably should, so when we trim them, the sides of the hoof are folded over to the inside, and you just trim that off, as well as the tip, and make sure that there isn't a groove there that dirt gets stuck in. Two of my goats are  quite easy to do, one in patricular. Stetson, the only goat with horns, is the tamest one and I can always pet him and catch him easy, I even taugh him a trick, to shake. [] And then one is good once you can catch her, but the other, Mocha is pretty hard to catch. She's a sweet goat, but is wary of being caught and  will run away. You shouldn't have a problem with your pet goat, though, the two I raised from kids are the friendliest. Once we catch them, they're easy to do, I just pick up each hoof and trim it, it takes me 5-10 minutes for each goat.

 Sorry if I wrote too much, I guess I got carried away.