a horse in your house?
http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071113/NEWS01/711130362/1002/NEWS01
I think if I were the landlord I might not let her have a horse in her apartment either........but, I don't know since she needs him, I might make an exception.
What do you guys think?
Heard of it before, they're good guide animals from what I understand. Plus who doesn't want a pony?
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Smunkeeville
14-11-2007, 16:39
http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071113/NEWS01/711130362/1002/NEWS01
A disabled woman who wants to use a 100-pound miniature horse as a service animal — pulling her wheelchair — has filed a human rights complaint against her landlord for not permitting it in her apartment.
I think if I were the landlord I might not let her have a horse in her apartment either........but, I don't know since she needs him, I might make an exception.
What do you guys think?
If I were renting an apartment to someone I am not sure I would want them to keep a pony in their living room...
Don't see as how it'd be much more trouble than a dog. They're smart enough to be trained afterall. Now if it's just some random mule she's gotten and not one that's trained I'd take issue with that.
Dundee-Fienn
14-11-2007, 16:43
Buy her an electric wheelchair and lose the horse
Smunkeeville
14-11-2007, 16:43
Heard of it before, they're good guide animals from what I understand. Plus who doesn't want a pony?
If I were renting an apartment to someone I am not sure I would want them to keep a pony in their living room...
Dundee-Fienn
14-11-2007, 16:47
yeah, it's just.... weird. (I say that even though my friend has a helper pig, that's right a pig)
the horse may be able to provide help that an electric wheel chair would not.
Such as?
The only other support I can see that it supplies is emotional. It could still perform that role if it was stabled and she visited it
Smunkeeville
14-11-2007, 16:48
Don't see as how it'd be much more trouble than a dog. They're smart enough to be trained afterall. Now if it's just some random mule she's gotten and not one that's trained I'd take issue with that.
yeah, it's just.... weird. (I say that even though my friend has a helper pig, that's right a pig)
Buy her an electric wheelchair and lose the horse
the horse may be able to provide help that an electric wheel chair would not.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
14-11-2007, 16:51
Dogs can be housebroken, can horses? If she can't guarantee a complete absence of road apples in the halls, then the apartment is well within their rights to laugh in her face.
Dogs can be housebroken, can horses? If she can't guarantee a complete absence of road apples in the halls, then the apartment is well within their rights to laugh in her face.
I agree completely
Curious Inquiry
14-11-2007, 16:59
Neigh!
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
14-11-2007, 17:00
Neigh!
Hay, that was uncalled for.
Wilgrove
14-11-2007, 17:04
Buy her an electric wheelchair and a specially trained Golden Retriever. *nods*
Who doesn't love a Golden Retriever?
Dogs can be housebroken, can horses?
Don't police horses come equipped with horse nappies/diapers? If the police can't house break their horses, then I doubt anyone else will have much luck.
Also, is an apartment large enough for a horse? Will it get enough exercise pulling her around?
Saige Dragon
14-11-2007, 17:26
Years ago, back in the Great Depression I think, when my grandpa lived on his family's ranch they had to deal with a donkey in the house. Can't remember how it got in, but it managed to get to the second floor bathroom (ironic, no?). They tried everything to get the donkey out but the thing wouldn't budge. They wound up shooting it and the hauling the beast, legs up, down the stairs and out of the house. I figured it held some pertinence to the OP.
Lunatic Goofballs
14-11-2007, 17:41
Hay, that was uncalled for.
Why the long face?
Years ago, back in the Great Depression I think, when my grandpa lived on his family's ranch they had to deal with a donkey in the house. Can't remember how it got in, but it managed to get to the second floor bathroom (ironic, no?). They tried everything to get the donkey out but the thing wouldn't budge. They wound up shooting it and the hauling the beast, legs up, down the stairs and out of the house. I figured it held some pertinence to the OP.
Shoot the woman and drag her, legs up, out of the building? :p
Lunatic Goofballs
14-11-2007, 17:43
Get that bitch a free Rascal(scooter). :D
Dogs can be housebroken, can horses? If she can't guarantee a complete absence of road apples in the halls, then the apartment is well within their rights to laugh in her face.according to the article...
"We have very real concerns about sanitation issues," he wrote. "Taking Earl out 'every 3 hours' seems totally unrealistic and, from what we have read and been told on the subject, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to house-train a horse."
Don't police horses come equipped with horse nappies/diapers? If the police can't house break their horses, then I doubt anyone else will have much luck. either a plug is used (Yea, a horse butt plug) or a bag is placed to catch both solid and liquid waste... a large bag. (feel free to check out any carrage horses walking the streets.)
Also, is an apartment large enough for a horse? Will it get enough exercise pulling her around?and if she has brittle bones, what happens should the horse step on her. those things, even tho small, can be very heavy.
Heard of it before, they're good guide animals from what I understand. Plus who doesn't want a pony?
*Raises Hand*