After being shunned by his mother, this baby goat was taken on a road trip across Canada

After Jimmy the baby goat was shunned by his mother, a New Brunswick man took the kid on a two-week road trip across Canada.

Jimmy might only be six weeks old, but he's already seen more of Canada than most human kids. Scheduled to return home early Wednesday after a two-week road trip from New Brunswick to Alberta, Jimmy the goat has travelled roughly 8,000 kilometres with owner Hector Aubertin and his daughter.

"He's his own person: he's stubborn and he's like a dog, but he's twice as fun, just a little bit harder to train," Aubertin told CTVNews.ca. "He loves going for walks, he's good on his leash and everything, and when he decides that he doesn't want to walk, we stop and he checks out the scenery. You know, it's his vacation too."

Semi-retired after years of working in the Alberta oilfields, Aubertin now has a little hobby farm in St. Stephen, N.B., where he tends to pigs, chickens, rabbits and Jimmy's goat family.

"He was born with an underbite, so he was shunned by his mother, she wouldn't feed him," Aubertin explained by phone while stopped in Hamilton, Ont. "So right from day one, I've been bottle-feeding Jimmy and keeping him alive, and he's like my best friend now. We kind of got that mother-goat bond thing going."

Aubertin was already planning to visit his other adult daughters in Edmonton when Jimmy entered his life this spring.

"It was obvious that I wasn't going to be able to go and not take him because he just wouldn't have it," Aubertin said. "If I'm not there with him, then mom's not there and he's having a fit, he just bleats and screams."

So Aubertin set up the back seat of his truck with hay, a food dish and a blanket and headed west, the words "Peace Man" in red letter decals on the top of his windshield.