At first I thought it was a big cat...

This is true and you may be asking why do I (being me, the author - not I as in you)care? And its because this is my oldest sisters neighborhood and the thought of a goat ramming her front door is enough to make me laugh!

Elusive pet goat still missing
By BEN FINLEY
Bucks County Courier Times

When she was a baby goat, Buckwheat was rescued from imminent slaughter. For 10 years she had it good - eating apples, carrots and whole wheat bread on a 3-acre spread in Bensalem. The question now is: Will she be lucky enough to survive Lower Bucks on her own?
The goat, with its long fleece and 6-inch, ivory-colored horns, escaped her pen on Mulberry Avenue in Bensalem Saturday. She eluded four police cars that trailed her Monday night. And she's ventured at least a 11/2 miles from home, reportedly ramming front doors and leaving messes in driveways. As the snow came down Tuesday afternoon, Buckwheat's owner, Iris Star,walked around with a bucket of poppy seed bagels and goat feed, hoping to lure her pet home. But she couldn't find her.

Star read in the Courier Times Tuesday morning that Hickory Avenue in Lower Southampton was the last place Buckwheat was seen, so she went there.
"My only fear is that she's going to get hit by a car," Star told acrew of television reporters who trailed her.

Star and Buckwheat go way back. A decade ago, Star was at the Davis Feed Mill in Wrightstown when she saw a poster on a wall. It said three baby goats were bound for the slaughterhouse if they weren't rescued before Thanksgiving. Star bought all three. The other two are Kellogg and Applejack. Buckwheat got her name because of her light brown fur. "Goats can be mischievous," Star said. Buckwheat being no exception; she must have worked her way through a metal cattle fence in the backyard, leaving Applejack and Kelloggbehind.

Then, Star theorized that ATV drivers who ride along the R-3 train linebehind her house chased Buckwheat well away from the house on Mulberry.

By Sunday, folks along Hickory Avenue began to report sightings. Hickory Avenue resident Mary Noe said Buckwheat was rubbing her hornsup against the house's side door. Her neighbor said the goat camped out on her doorstep.

Cops said there have been sightings and reports of the goat ramming front doors.
"She's just looking for warmth," Star said. "She's like a pet.She's going to seek companionship and shelter."

Mike Fournier, Penn State's agriculture agent for Bucks County, said Buckwheat will be fine in this weather. "They evolved in this weather. It wouldn't be any different than a stray dog," he said.

Tom Gilbert called the Courier Times to say he might have seen Buckwheat in Northampton's Churchville section off Tanyard Road. That's more than five miles from the Hickory Avenue sightings. "At first I thought it was a big cat," Gilbert said. "But it ran like a dog, and had the color of a dog, a graying brown. It had a long snout. It shook me up. It was something really strange. I haven't seen anything like this before."

After hearing this description, Star said: "I don't think that's my goat."

She's asking anyone who thinks they have spotted her goat to call her at 215-355-5123.