Not a shovel, Wolf, actually a dust pan is what those 4H'ers at the Fair used.
But goats DO eat snakes, V, (they eat just about anything except the tin cans that the cartoons show, or at least stomp on it pretty well). The minis I saw at the Fair were no larger than a Maine Coon cat, maybe they were still rather young, but I don't know what kind of temperament they have. The ones I saw just looked afraid of being stepped on