I lived in Woburn, Mass for a while. This happened around the year 2000. Woburn is a suburbian area near Boston. There are towns next to each other - not much wild countryside there.
Our neighbor kept a big full grown billy goat as a pet. One night wild coyotes killed it. People had been missing some small dogs and cats from the neighborhood for a while before that happened....
Also there was a groundhog running about the neighborhood.
Nobody bothered it. One winter it chose to hibernate under the front porch. The smell when it came out from its den was a strong gamy awful awful yucky double awful!