My goat has a poking problem

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I am also fairly new to all of this but I agree 100% with the concept of fight aggression with love.  My alpha had a problem with tapping people with his horns and throwing a fit if you touched his backside or tried to push past him on the trail etc. He would do the full on standing up on his hind legs display and everything. I tried everything, squirt bottles, big sticks, throwing him on his back and sitting on top of him for sometimes 45 minutes and it only kept getting worse. It had gotten to the point where I thought I'd have to get rid of him.  I finally changed my tactics 180 degrees and started to give him an excessive amount of love everytime he acted up.  Almost to the point where I would annoy the hell out of him by not letting him get away from the loving.  It took some patience and self control on my part and some days I definitely wanted to give him a good whack with my walking stick instead. It took a few months of consistency  but in the last 6 weeks he's become really really mellow and hasn't acted up once.