Photo Credit: Chattanooga Times Free PressEAST RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) - Not wanting to be the people who got Jeff Viar's goat, city council members in a Tennessee city will consider an exemption for the animal.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported the issue is whether a black and white pigmy goat named Oreo can remain in East Ridge as Viar's pet.
City Manager Tim Gobble said there's no question Oreo is cute. But he also said the city must either enforce its "no livestock" ordinance or find an alternative.
Jeff and Samantha Viar said they didn't know keeping Oreo was against the law when they got him for their children a year ago.
Mayor Brent Lambert is sympathetic. He has kids, too -- the human kind -- and said the city is willing to look at a narrow exception for Oreo.
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