Running with Sherman: How a Rescue Donkey Inspired a Rag-tag Gang of Runners to Enter the Craziest Race in America

by Christopher McDougall

If you present a goat with an unsolvable problem, it won’t just hoist its tail and walk off, the way cats do;*4 instead, it will look you dead in the eye and wordlessly ask for help. Try it yourself: all you need is a goat and a Tupperware of pasta.