I hope my fellow Minnesotians would show some kindness to our four footed friends [View all]

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/