The Goat Who Thought He Was a Dog, Version 9

It was ten-year-old Jake’s responsibility to get the family’s animals into the barn whenever it started to rain. One day, a real downpour started, and Jake ran as fast as his little legs could carry him, ushering horses into the stables, and the cows and pigs into their pens, and the chickens to the hen house. Little Jake was soaked through and through, and all he had left was to get the dogs into the house. “Run boys,” he called, and his four dogs and his goat who thought he was a dog set off a trot beside him. The goat couldn’t run as fast as the dogs, though, and he was struck by lightning and died. Jake got in trouble since one of the animals died on his watch.