Disabled Woman Trains Mini Pony for Chores

• duotiga83

  1 Aug 03, 20:57

  Disabled Woman Trains Mini Pony for Chores
  48 minutes ago Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!
  
  BERLIN (Reuters) - A disabled German woman is training a Shetland pony to help her lead a self-sufficient life but animal experts have questioned whether it is right that a small pony is pressed into such a role.
  
  Evelyn Allhoff-Menke, a former veterinarian who lives on a farm in eastern Germany, said she wants the pony to pull her wheelchair and aid her in everyday chores.
  
  "I could take the little horse everywhere," Allhoff-Menke, who lost the use of her legs four years ago in a riding accident, told Reuters. "He could fetch things for me, and someday pull me in my wheelchair around the farm."
  
  But other vets and animal rights groups said they had doubts. Although it is not unheard of to use Shetland ponies as guide animals for the blind, none had heard of them being used to assist people with physical disabilities.
  
  http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=9&u=/nm/20030801/od_nm/odd_germany_pony_dc
  
  wow........
• Angel^_^

  2 Aug 03, 04:55

  well..i guess tt it's ok to let some other animals to try to sid those in needy..not always dogs i guess..as long as it's not too tiring..think should be ok for those animals yah..?
• PaJeRoMiNi Ver 1.0

  2 Aug 03, 07:19

  Saw this message in the Yahoo forum pertaining to the vets and animal rights groups saying that they had doubts in the above story:
  
  "There's a problem with the pony working for a woman with a physical disability - but no problem with them being used to carry and cart people *without* any disability?"
  
  I couldn't agree less..