Nebraska council votes to evict aging horse

HICKMAN – This one-horse town is looking like becoming a no-horse town.

The owner of a 32-year-old horse named Peter Rabbit wasn’t able on Tuesday to buck a local ban on livestock within city limits. After widespread publicity of the ban that threatened to kick Peter Rabbit off the pasture where he was born, the Hickman City Council considered an ordinance on Tuesday night that would allow horses inside city limits.But council members ultimately voted 4-2 against adopting it, leaving the ban intact.The horse’s owner, 76-year-old Harley Scott, said he has raised Peter Rabbit since the brown Morgan-quarter horse crossbreed was born in his pasture in the spring of 1976.Scott said there have been horses on the land since his father bought 40 acres in 1935.Only about 4 acres remain in the family.The rest has been sold to developers.His land was annexed in 2006, but Scott said no one said anything to him at the time about having to give up the horse.Scott has said he has no intention of complying with the September 15 deadline.He faces the prospect of being fined up to N$770 a day if he’s convicted of violating the ordinance.Nampa-APAfter widespread publicity of the ban that threatened to kick Peter Rabbit off the pasture where he was born, the Hickman City Council considered an ordinance on Tuesday night that would allow horses inside city limits.But council members ultimately voted 4-2 against adopting it, leaving the ban intact.The horse’s owner, 76-year-old Harley Scott, said he has raised Peter Rabbit since the brown Morgan-quarter horse crossbreed was born in his pasture in the spring of 1976.Scott said there have been horses on the land since his father bought 40 acres in 1935.Only about 4 acres remain in the family.The rest has been sold to developers.His land was annexed in 2006, but Scott said no one said anything to him at the time about having to give up the horse.Scott has said he has no intention of complying with the September 15 deadline.He faces the prospect of being fined up to N$770 a day if he’s convicted of violating the ordinance.Nampa-AP

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