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a kennedy

(32,074 posts) Sat Jan 4, 2020, 09:12 PM Jan 2020

I hope my fellow Minnesotians would show some kindness to our four footed friends

Shirley Kittleson has unwanted guests. They won’t stop eating and they won’t go home.

But Kittleson’s guests aren’t holiday visitors. They’re miniature horses — a herd of 72 that was thrust on her after the Animal Humane Society and the Watonwan County sheriff seized them from a southern Minnesota pony farm, where they were being mistreated.

Now this rural Minnesota veterinarian has housed and tended to the ponies for a year and a half, and she can’t get anyone to pay for their care. Kittleson is trying to collect on a bill that has passed $325,000 — and climbing. Last month, she filed a lawsuit against the Humane Society and Watonwan County in Martin County District Court for nonpayment.

“This was so big we couldn’t let it go,” she said recently, adding, “We sure would like to get our stalls back.”

http://www.startribune.com/rural-minnesota-vet-caring-for-72-seized-miniature-horses/566722392/

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I hope my fellow Minnesotians would show some kindness to our four footed friends (Original Post) a kennedy Jan 2020 OP

I would be happy to take a couple of those off her hands Bayard Jan 2020 #1

Bayard

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1. I would be happy to take a couple of those off her hands

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Sun Jan 5, 2020, 01:00 AM

Jan 2020

I already have one mini keeping my big horse company, and have a couple extra stalls. It sounds like its not a case of being able to place them though, but ownership problems.

“I think the Humane Society thinks that if they sign the release, they will admit ownership and have to pay the bill,” she said." This is really unfair to this poor woman. She shouldn't be stuck with the enormous cost just because she was kind enough to foster them.

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