Horse left at Ohio Amish-area Wal-Mart needs home

[January 09, 2012]  SOUTH RUSSELL, Ohio (AP) -- Wally the Wal-Mart horse is looking for a new home.

That's the nickname given to a 9-year-old Standardbred horse that a humane society says was left at a northeast Ohio store by an Amish teenager more than two months ago. Humane Officer Christian Courtwright in Geauga County says the teen apparently unhooked the horse from a buggy, tied it to a rail at the Wal-Mart in Middlefield and never came back for it.

He says store employees noticed the horse the next day and tended to it until police took it to a caregiver.

He says the humane society now has control of the horse and expects it to be available for adoption soon.

[Associated Press]

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