Editor:
We live in East Ladner, and on the afternoon of May 4, I watched as three horses with young riders walked up the street in front of our house. One of the horses decided to have a large dump right in front of our driveway.
I told the riders they had left something behind but was ignored by them. As this has happened numerous times before, and I had spoken to the owner of the equestrian farm on 66th street previously, I decided to scoop up the droppings in a bag and go talk to the owner again.
When I asked her why when the riders decide to bring their horses into a clean residential neighbourhood, why don’t the riders stop and pick up the horse’s messes, her immediate response was there is no bylaw that says we have too. What an arrogant, inconsiderate attitude!
I told her that if the riders are too lazy to pick up after their animals, they should stay on her farm property. At this point I dumped the contents of the bag on her driveway and asked her to have some respect and consideration for her neighbours in a clean well kept residential neighbourhood.
About an hour later I got a call from Delta Police, that she had called, and I was informed it was against the law for me to return the horse droppings to her, but not against the law for the riders to leave the droppings in front of our homes.
I understand we are not supposed to put any excrement in our garbage, so what are we supposed to do with a large deposit of horse droppings? There is a bylaw that says people walking their dogs must pick up their droppings, but no bylaw to leave a large pile of horse feces in front of my home?
Wil Steffen
