Most Nashville neighborhoods have some sort of symbol that represents the character of its constituents. East Nashville hosts the Tomato Art Fest, Germantown boasts lines of beautiful Victorian homes, and SoBro has drunk people on pedal taverns. Woodbine? They have a goat. Often decked out in a baseball cap or colorful sweater, Zoey and owner Mark Bigsbee can be found most mornings strolling down any number of Woodbine’s residential streets. Neighbors consistently rally behind their unofficial mascot, most notably with protests following removal threats from Metro Animal Care and Control in 2014. But in a rare display of the democratic process, the city conceded by allowing Zoey to remain in Woodbine and awarding her Nashville’s first-ever — and foreseeably only — therapy goat permit, making her Goat No. 001. Woodbine is quickly becoming a hotspot for residential and commercial development, but so long as residents like Zoey stick around, it will remain the lovable oddball cousin on the Nashville-district family tree. MATT FOX
Best Therapy Goat
Zoey in Woodbine
Photo: Daniel Meigs
