IF it isn't weird enough that Steve Killeen walks his pet goat through Sydney every day, it turns out the animal was part of a divorce settlement.

The Foxtel salesman from Darlington, in Sydney's inner suburbs, said his then wife chose the animal a year ago after she went looking on the internet for another odd pet, a hairless cat.

"She saw pictures of baby goats and that was it," Mr Killeen said yesterday.

"We checked with council, and four weeks later we got a goat."

While Mr Killeen's wife didn't hang around - she took the family dog, for some reason - his trusty sidekick "Maxie" did.

Now Mr Killeen takes the goat, and his friend's goat Joanie, for daily walks.

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"On Sundays we religiously walk to Hyde Park," he said. "There's a tree that they like, they just go nuts."

The daily strolls - which are fast becoming a familiar sight to locals - take longer than you might think because so many people stop Mr Killeen to comment on his "herd".

Mr Killeen, who keeps both the goats in his friend's large backyard in Chippendale, said dogs could be a problem for an urban goat-herder.

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"If they're a shepherd, they're going to have a run at the goat and try and herd it," he said.

Originally published as Meet man who got his wife's goat