Neighbors Say Neigh To Mini-Horse

Let him keep the horse....geez.

If he can keep a horse it opens up the laws for all farm animals. If he gets to keep a horse then I want a pygmy goat to eat all this honeysuckle around here, Roundup doesn't phase it

If he maintains his yard, cleans up after the mini - horse, let them keep it. Get a life neighbors....probably jealous because all their kiddies now want a horse.

A hourse is a hourse of course. I am all for property owner rights, too the extream. But when your choices start effecting the health or th reasonable use of other property owners (smell). Then you are wrong, with daily tending to the horse and it's stall. The smell would not be a problem. I know this from experance. I grew up next to a family that kept two full size not 150 yards from our home. In 20 years there there never was a problem not one. But they were very dedicaded to the horses. When they took there two week vaction, the horses went with them. It is a workable problem, maybe the neighbors need to give it a chance.. Give him 90 days. Then take a look at it.

let him keep his horse . how does this horse bother you?there are worse things in this world to worry about.this is pety , get to know the horse and maybe you would like it too,or better yet get to know yourself and find happiness. i would rather have this horse live next to me than a rapist,murderer or child molester,so if it isnt one of these sick people than dont be bothered,this is stupid

Let him keep his horse its about the size of a Great Dane or a Saint Bernard. His Yard and house are well matained that is what should matter. People have nothing better to do but stick their noses in everyone else's business. I would start a petition to keep him I would sign it.

If he could somehow prove it was a "service animal" it would be protected under the ADA which trumps the neighborhood covenant. They have successfully trained seeing eye horses using mini horses, so why not? Does his son have a disability of any sort, even psychological? If so, and he can show that it can perform at least 3 tasks specific to his disability, he can have it no questions asked. What's it harming anyway? I'd rather hear a horse neigh than the horrible squeaking that the dog next door does constantly!!!

If this is all the neighbors have to complain about then tell about any open property and I will move into that neigh-borhood. The yard appears to be clean and the house appears to be maintained well. How many of his neigh-bors can say the same? Let him keep the horse or go look into that little boys eyes and tell him they are the ones complaining about his pet.

The law is the law, and a horse is a horse of course of course, but a full grown great dane can cut a log every bit as big as that horse.

I think its just plain stupid that you "neighbors" are being so un-neighborly. Let him keep the horse. There are people in your neighborhood that probably have snakes, are you going to go up to them and tell them they can't have the snake because its an uncommon house pet? Maybe there is a middle ground you can both work with. I'm glad this guy is fighting for his rights and the rights of his children. And teaching his children to stand up for what they believe. This is AMERICA people. come on!

I hope he gets to keep his horse for the little boy... I would love to have a mini horse.. but always was afraid it wouldn't be classified as a pet

Get rid of the horse! You are breaking the law! If you want to keep a horse (mini or not) work to change the city ordiance then get a horse. Let's just all break all of the laws of the land and then go to the judge later to get a ruling. No wait, that sounds a lot like what criminals do.

This guys neighbors have no idea how lucky they are. My arse of a neighbor has HUGE 90+ pound dogs he doesn't pay any attention to. Their backyard has no grass and is coated with dog-tootsie-rolls. The dogs BARK ALL DAY LONG. It reeks in the summer.

So I'd take a mini horse next door ANY day of the week. Some people just *have* to look for something to be unhappy about.

We all have neighbors like this, but unfortunately some of these new neighborhoods have more than the usual % of the "me first" types. This poor guy (and his poor pony) apparently live in one of those neighborhoods where some neighbor expects everything must be exactly perfect and by the rules. Said neighbor is probably in the neighborhood clique of people quick to judge others and yet consider themselves relatively exempt from the same standards. Typical liberal mentality of "me first, what I want is most important" and thus let's block a neighbor from doing something harmless on his own property. It's likely the judgmental neighbors have KIDS who behave worse than this horse. It's not the neighbor's concern, this guy should be able to keep a tiny horse like this if it doesn't bother anyone else. Put up an 8' high privacy fence so they don't know, and screw 'em!

Munchkin wrote:

If he maintains his yard, cleans up after the mini - horse, let them keep it. Get a life neighbors....probably jealous because all their kiddies now want a horse.

couldn't of said it better

That is the problem when you get into these neighbor hoods like this. You get people who think they are above others and their crap dont stink and if they don't like what their neighbor is doing they will definitely complain. Snobby people urk me. I don't see how a mini horse is going to hurt anything and if this is all they are complaining about then they need to go live in the neighborhood I used to live in. You could not pay me enough to live next door to an uppity person who thinks their crap don't stink. these neighborhoods telling you when you can have a garage sale and when you cant and so on. Its like you are living in a Nazism neighberhood.

Let all the jerks who want him to get rid of the mini-horse to tell that little boy why he has to give up his pet. I bet the horse is quieter than most dogs in the neighborhood. As for the smell, it probably isn't any worse than the yards that have dogs in them. Being a mini-horse it probably doesn't put out more than a large dog. If the man uses it for fertilizer he is recycling, so what's to complain about.

another case of pathetic okies not having enugh to occupy their time. leave this horse alone an get a hobby you miserable midwestern losers.

Steve wrote:

Get rid of the horse! You are breaking the law! If you want to keep a horse (mini or not) work to change the city ordiance then get a horse. Let's just all break all of the laws of the land and then go to the judge later to get a ruling. No wait, that sounds a lot like what criminals do.

Break the law then change it. No wait a minute isn't that how this nation was founded. Steve I feel laws were to be in place to serve us and protect our freedom's. However for the last 50 years it seems most laws restrict or completly remove those freedoms...Just today the HLS announced that they can seize with out warrent your personal electronic devices. Laptop's, cellphones, pda's. even your mp3 player. They do not have to return them. If they seize they will retain there "rights" to search them at will. Even if it is a destructive search....And this is the law is the law. We are not winning this war, we are loseing it. Our government is doing what our enemies would do to us if they had a chance. Our childern will never know the freedoms that we once knew.

How do they know this mini horse is NOT a pet as stated in the article?

Like Yep said put a privacy fence up and no one would know. What you don't know can't hurt you.