more on emily

the pony and the family who she's about to be ripped away from because a neighbor (whose property borders on a COW FARM) can't stand the smell

some good news though. seems like the town and many businesses are backing up antonia. if you'd like to contribute to a fund the email address is below and at the boing boing link too (pic from boing boing)

Family of disabled boy whose pony is to be taken away starts a fundraising drive

Posted by Cory Doctorow,
The mother of the disabled child who may lose his miniature pony -- his only means of moving independently -- because his neighbours (who live next to a cow farm) complained about the smell -- has established a PayPal account to fund the legal work of keeping the pony. That address: antoniaspiteri82@hotmail.com . .................

there's a special

place for people like the neighbor who complained about emily (hint: and i don't mean heaven)

i don't know about canada but i'd go the therapy animal route to plead the case.

(picture from the boing boing story)

Disabled boy to lose his tiny pony because the neighbours don't like the smell


Town threatens to evict disabled boy’s pony
By Cigdem Iltan, National Post

The town of Caledon 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 he 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 today.
But at the end of July, the town notified the Spiteris the pony had to be removed due to the complaints.
“We already had problems with the neighbour harassing us throughout the summer about bonfires on our property,’’ said Ms. Spiteri. ‘‘We thought ‘Oh, they’ve been told they can’t complain about that, so this is the new avenue they’re taking’.”
Ms Spiteri said both her family and the complaining neighbour border on a cattle farm, and can’t understand how the smell was traced to Emily.
‘‘The cows go right up to their property too. We thought, ‘You’re kidding – seven cows to one miniature pony?’ We were quite shocked by what we thought was a joke at first.”
Caledon bylaw enforcement manager Glenn Blakely said the Spiteris’ one-acre property is zoned as rural residential and is too small to house a miniature pony............