Many people heard of stories about kids raised by wolves or bears, but never by goats. In the Wangjiahe village in Yulin, Shaanxi, there is a kid that behaves like a goat, CCTV International Channel reported.

The kid, named Shuanshuan, had been neglected by his family for many years. Ever since he learned to walk, he was tied to a tree with no one to look after him. Only a goat accompanied him.

A year ago, a reporter saw Shuanshuan for the first time. At that time, he was already six years old. However, he could not speak but baa to express what he wanted.

Shuanshuan's mother died when he was four months old. His father is mentally retarded and Shuanshuan's grandmother, now 74, is the only person capable of doing housework in the family. Granny said she had no other choices. Although she was well on in years, she had to take care of all the field work and household chores and had no time to look after her small grandson. She could not let Shuanshuan go out of the courtyard because their house was located on a steep cliff skirting the Yellow River.

Asked why she couldn't let Shuanshuan play with other kids, granny said she was afraid her grandson might fall into the Yellow River.

So, everyday, before granny went to work on the land, she would tie Shuanshuan to a tree in the courtyard. In the evening, when granny finished all the work, she would untie him and let him go to bed.

The reporter saw that Shuanshuan could only move about in an area less than three square meters. With nobody teaching him, he couldn't take care of himself at all. He had to be fed and dressed.

Since no kids but a goat in his house had ever played with him, Shuanshuan was intimate with the goat, but cold to humans. Villagers thought that he was a deaf-mute as well as a mentally retarded boy, and called him an idiot or a mute.

With someone's help, Shuanshuan walked out of his house at the end of last year and went to the Shaanxi Yulin Language Rehabilitation School to learn to speak.

So far, he has studied in the school for almost a year. He still can not communicate with people and whenever he wants something, he will yell. A teacher in the school raises a goat and Shuanshuan likes the goat very much.

School teacher Liu Chengde said Shuanshuan still likes to play with goats, not humans. He can't speak, but has made great progress. There is nothing wrong with his mind. He just behaves more like an animal.