A bleat-taking duo!
A 5-year-old boy in Texas has captured hearts after he was filmed joyfully showering his prize-winning goat with hugs and kisses after placing fourth in a local animal show.
The heartwarming video, which has garnered more than six million views on Instagram, shows Milo Garza beaming at his yellow ribbon before hugging his white and brown pet goat, Teddy Bear, and smothering him with love at the Compardres Cabritos goat and lamb show in Kingsville on June 22.
“I love goats,” Milo told NBC News Monday, after the viral video, posted on June 23, erupted on social media.
“We feed them, and we work them, and we walk them. We give them water.”
Milo, who comes from a family of goat ranchers, filled in at the junior competition for his older brother at the last minute when the touching moment was captured by an attendee and posted online.
The young boy said his favorite thing about Teddy Bear is his plump little legs.
“It was a raw emotion,” his mother, Elizabeth, said of Milo affectionately squeezing his favorite furry friend and repeatedly planting kisses on its head after earning the fourth-place title.
“It was something totally, totally unexpected. Milo is a goat lover. He goes outside and he’s constantly kissing the goats, loving on the goats, hugging them and they’re pets to him and he can’t get enough of them.”
