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N 9/18/85 #G76 To «u It May Concern: 7/31/85 I received an inspection notice indicating I was in violation of Orono ordinance n-cticr, 10.20 subdivision 2K. 71he cmplaint aledges I keep an animal in violation :)f that ordinance, a complaint I understand initiated by one of my neighbors in the Bayshire suhdivision of Orono, located on the old Navarre drive-in theater site. I don't believe I am in violation of the ordinance either as wordy or by it's actual intent. My pet is an African Pygmy Goat. He was bought thrr:ugh a pet store. He has regular physical check ups by a pet veterinarian. He is kept in a kennel inside the house. He spends time_ outside only when I am at hone, and during those periods he is tethered on a twenty foot long leash in my back yard. He rarely is tethered on a fifteen leash in the front yard, only if I am outside in the front yard with him. I occasionally take him for walks around the neighborhood on a six foot leash. He makes no loud sounds, ccnWable to the barking of a dog, for example. He in no way makes use of the outside property in any manner the danestic a�u��nals refered to in the ordinance would do. He does not graze. His food is bought at a pet/feed store and fed to him inside his kennel inside the house. "Billy Goat Korth" clearly is an exotic house pet, and should be considered in the same context a parrot, tropical fish, cats and dogs or other are, not in the context with cows, steers, horses, do;ikeys, burros, sheep and fowl, the wording of the ordinance. Bil�y is 24 inches tall at the withers and weighs approximately forty pounds; smaller than my next door neighbor's dogs. 7b support ry clam+ I am including the folio r nxl: Letters fran two former neighbors of mine in Wen Prairie wt-C were familiar with my goat and rue for his entire life (21i years) . Seven letters .from my current neighbors in Bayshire. A note to me fra, '-s developer of Payrshire, wtm helped :ne solicit the letters indicating her support and the support of two other neighbors I haven .peen able to make contact with. 'Ibis represents a rajority of the ..sidents of Bayshire, and if necessary I will obtain the other ,ignaturee, giving me approval by ten of twelve hams. Photostats of four different newspaper stories, all indicatirr.I the acceptance of FYyc;"•yy goats as hcyu:se pets. A picture of Billy on his leash in the front and back vard. In addition, I offer these two references as e)qY_,rtg who w-rild clarify African Pygmy Cleats as house pets: 3:aren. Erin}_, owner Dr. Bailee. veterinarian the Fact Flare rrdar Det aAni,: Fmc.hester, MN Minneaixdls 1 1 T I'd tv happy to hxinq anyone fro:, the city of Orono over to rT, arx? • show then Billy and his hone. chl Korth