Posted on 11/27/2008 9:19:04 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
CALEDON, Ont. - A small Ontario town may force a three-year-old boy with cerebral palsy to give up his miniature pony after a neighbour complained about the smell.
Sam Spiteri's grandfather gave him the pony, Emily, after the child was diagnosed with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy shortly after birth. The boy can't walk or crawl, and Emily is part of his therapy regime.
"When we take him off the pony, he cries. Even if he's tired, he doesn't want to leave her," his mother, Antonia Spiteri, said yesterday.
(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...
Old bastard. Ponies smell GOOD.
A town is an inanimate object (or a collection of inanimate objects).
It’s PEOPLE - stupid bureaucratic and power-mad but still people - that want to do this.
Canada’s media are past hope and the US MSM aren’t far behind but they continue to assign human qualities and motives to government.
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There. Fixed it. Time to name-and-shame: so who is this Judas?
So the neighbor's have cattle & one mini pony has to be removed from a sick child because of a odor. How can you say one animal's manure is worse then another's? What scum these neighbors are IMHO.
Actually they don’t to me at least, but if you can’t stand the smell of horse sh## then I guess you will not like the new “green” world coming your way. Sad story looks like someone found a way for the kid to at least for a moment feel “normal” in the world and someone else can’t stand the effect of an animal that humans have used for thousands of years.
Meanwhile, I doubt very, very much that the neighbors are really complaining about the smell. One tiny mimi cannot possibly generate much poop, particularly when compared to the cattle farm next door. If anybody really complained, they might be induced to withdraw their complaint. It's not at all clear that the average non-horsey person could even differentiate between the odors of horse and cattle anyway, so they probably didn't know what they were complaining about.
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Skunk Scents
There is no odor quite like this.
We sell the GOOD STUFF…and does it STINK!!!
We’re surrounded by dairy farms and although they are a couple miles away, we still smell them. No way one pony is going to out stink a NEIGHBORING dairy farm.
I wonder if this creep has any dogs that he doesn’t clean up after. I’d rather smell horse manure than dog poop.
Horse poop disposal is a lot easier than chicken, pig or human. For them with this horse it will be actually simpler than a very large breed dog.
Can they really take away a therapy animal? Wouldn’t that fall under Americans with Disabilities Act or some such can’t discriminate against handicapped people?
The guy is scum. (My apologies to anything green and slimy)
The ADA does not apply in Canada. However, the family could call the Human Rights Tribunal and get the neighbor convicted for discrimination. They have a 100% conviction rate, you know.
Were not you and I on the opposite side of some issue some months ago?
Could be but don't recall any particulars. I don't generally agree with everyone on everything.
Especially if they could convince someone that it’s no different than a large dog.
I know it's subjective but I can't imagine who would think horse poop smells worse than cow plop. As for the Disabilities Act; that won't help because this is in Canada. I have a feeling the neighbor is just a jerk with some personal agenda at play here. One little pony can't be bothering him that much.
May the Bird of Paradise fly up his nose ... and poop in it.
Perhaps the boys parents could contact the neighbors that have the cattle and work something out to allow the pony to herd with his cattle.
Sometimes human beings make me terribly sick to my stomach. Lots of times, recently, in fact.
My thoughts are nastier then yours. It seems the owners of the mini horse/pony don't have quite enough land for the sick child's pet. A nice neighbor who has stinking cattle would allow the pony to use their land but they are the dopes who are making the fuss. May that bird fly somewhere else & may it poop there.
Adequately sun dried, it would make excellent fertilizer for the complaining persons’ lawns and gardens. What’s the problem?
The heartless feller what made the ruling is name Glenn Blakely, who is the manager of the By-Law Enforcement department of the Caledon city government. I sent him an email...
Mr. Blakely,
With all due respect, sir, you are a Scrooge if this story presents the facts as they are....
Town wants to take away pony from sick boy, 3
Cigdem Iltan, Canwest News Service
Published: Thursday, November 27, 2008
CALEDON, Ont. - A small Ontario town may force a three-year-old boy with cerebral palsy to give up his miniature pony after a neighbour complained about the smell.
I’m an old farm boy so I know a miniature pony can’t possibly stack up smell-wise against a herd of cows. If I were you I would reconsider my ruling. Particularly in light of the lambasting you will surely call down on yourself if you stand by your unreasonable and, might I say, heartless proclamation.
Sincerely,
Ken Kelley
Frenchburg, Kentucky
If you wish, you can reach Mr. Blakely at glenn.blakely@caledon.ca to let him know your displeasure with his bureaucratic nonsense and general nastiness.
Thankyou, mate — I shall follow your excellent example in this matter, and encourage other FReepers to do likewise.
Let’s FReep this clown!
I have also posted Mr. Blakely’s contact information on some horseman’s websites. I think his email is going to be shut down shortly, if the horsemen respond as they usually do, but he still will have a telephone. He’s going to be fairly uncomfortable.
Well, not really. Miniature horses like this one operate just like big horses, which means they eat roughage pretty much nonstop and they also poop nonstop. Dogs, of course, only do one or two piles a day, while horses produce very frequently and profusely. Contrary to popular opinion, you can't just spread it on your garden without aging and composting it. Even for a mini, that's a large smelly mess that draws breeds flies.
Manure disposal really is a problem for horse owners, and it's possible these folks need some assistance with it. That's fine. Compassion would allow them to make arrangements with a disposal company, which is what many owners do.
You are absolutely right!
Mr. Blakely sounds like an O.B.A.M.A.H.(Olde Bastard and Mean As Hell).
Note to Mr. Blakely: “ES&D” = Eat $hit and Die
My oh my! What an uproar this situation has caused in the media world. It’s bigger than Obammy’s missing birth certificate. I checked the Google listings and there are dozens in just the four or five pages I skimmed through. I would HATE to be Glenn Blakley or anyone else in the Caledon city government at this moment in time.
Thanks, I am emailing too.
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