R.I.P. Whisky

Several months ago our male goat (buck?) died of unexplainable causes. We were sad because he was our only male, and we needed him to get our females pregnant. We held off on buying another buck because we didn't want our females to get pregnant at the wrong time of year. Well, Wes finally started looking for a new male about a month ago. He located a buck in Avondale that needed to be sold because the owner was going into 'show goats' (who does show goats? is there even such a thing?). Over Christmas Wes went and picked up the goat and brought it back to my parents house.
We had a blast telling people to go look in the backyard. Whisky looked so out of place, but Hallie and Tai had fun playing with the goat. I think my brother Luke's reaction was the best, "What the freak is that?!"
We took Whisky back to Gallup and he thoroughly enjoyed the females ...for a full week. Wes went out to feed about a week after we got back from Christmas and Whisky was dead. :( We don't know what happened. We don't know if the lady who sold us the goat did so knowing that he was sick. Wes emailed the lady to let her know what happened, and she never wrote back. So, we are buckless once again, and hoping that Whisky did his job in the short time he was with us. RIP Whisky.