Pony tethered in a front garden.

[Nickles1973]

While dropping my youngest child at school on friday I had to look twice at what appeared to be a child of about 8/9 hand grazing a small pony on a piece of land adjacent to a kids play area. By Friday evening there where piles of manure all over including on the footpath. Today I took a drive down the road to see where the pony could have come from to find the poor little thing tethered in the front garden of a house. I am amazed at the mentality of some people. This is a normal residential housing area close by to a primary school. What sort of environment is that for keeping a pony in?? Never mind how unfair it is to the neighbours and parents walking their kids to school and having to avoid piles of pony poo all over the place. I doubt if anyone in authority will give a damn especially since the owners are from a certain minority but I do feel everso sorry for the pony and people that live in the surrounding houses.

 

[Mare Stare]

There was a family keeping a shetland pony on a tarmacked yard living by me last year.

I don't know what happened to it. It suddenly disappeared when I informed the council.

BTW I have been known to let the Horrid Welsh graze the lawn in the front and bak gardens. I hate lawn mowing. He's never been tethered though. I sit out there with a book in the sunshine and let him get on with his work - tbh it's all he's really good for! And he goes bak into his field afterwards. God knows what the neighbours think but who cares?!