‘These are my kids’: Fire destroys Temperance man’s goat barn, kills more than 100 animals

TEMPERANCE, Mich. — Three-month-old Rocky Balboa doesn’t know it yet, but the tiny goat is a survivor.

“These are my kids,” William Cook, the owner of Rocky said with a trembling voice.

Rocky is one of 150 goats Cook had been raising at his home in Temperance as part of his small business, Will’s Handsome Silky Goats and Such. He raised and sold goats — and rescued others — pouring his time, money and heart into what he called more than just a hobby…

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