“Goats would fit in, although hogs are more prevalent.”
Noble beasts both! Before the War, on the feast day of +Gerasimos of Leontarion, the people of our village would cook up to 400 pigs on spits and have a big festival. People always identify lamb with Greece, but actually the Greeks eat easily more pork than lamb.
Methodists do that here.
We cooked a hog on my 11th birthday, in exotic Missouri. I recall riding back from the farm in the back of the truck with the (ahem) soon-to-be-main-dish. No smell like live hog ...