Middlefield News

Christian Courtwright, the Humane Officer of the Geauga County Humane Society's Rescue Village, stands with Wally, a 9-year-old standard bred horse, at the animal shelter in South Russell, Ohio on Saturday, Jan.

That might be the resume for a horse that Human Society officials have nicknamed Wally, because he turned up tied to the buggy rail outside a Walmart in Middlefield, Ohio.

Every year, for most of the recent Christmas Bird Counts, I've arrived at the Rangers Station at Presque Isle State Park at 7 a.m. to interview as many of the volunteers as I could in the half-hour before they left for their assigned birding areas.

Wally the Walmart horse is looking for a new home.That's the nickname given to a 9-year-old standardbred horse that a humane society says was left at a northeast Ohio store by an Amish teenager more than two months ago.

Christian Courtwright, the Humane Officer of the Geauga County Humane Society's Rescue Village, stands with Wally, a 9-year-old standard bred horse, at the animal shelter in South Russell, Ohio on Saturday, Jan.