Horses should stop being slobs

How did Menino get elected? Better yet, how did he get re-elected?

In the Boston Metro, the Mayor Thomas Menino explains the equine digestive process of Boston Police horses. The impression given is that they are unique due to their thoughtfully maintained diets. This is cutting edge stuff.

Perhaps he is being rude or sarcastic in response to a rather silly complaint. (The complaint was over horse poop.) Regardless I don't get how his public relations people let this response slip by.

Metro moments with the Mayor from the mayor's response: "April, the Boston Police Mounted Unit feeds their horses natural products and, as a result, their manure is bio-degradable."

The take home message: Feed a horse Twinkies and Diet Coke and perhaps you can start a rubber plant.

Also on that note: Paper is bio-degradable, as are food products... does that mean we can litter as long as the litter in question will return to nature in a relatively short time?

For April who wrote the following: "People step on it or cars will run through it. Since people are required to immediately take up after their pets, why is this same procedure not followed with these horses?" The way I see it April: A) Enjoys walking down the middle of the street, rather than on the sidewalk. Or.... B) April is incredibly lazy and doesn't think she should pick up Fido's crap. Or.... perhaps C) If the horse can take a dump in the road why can't April?

Oh...wait Maybe... April just needs a job and she wants to follow the horses around all day with trash bags, just waiting for them to crap. April could catch the crap in mid air and would ask for only some of that wonderful natural food that the Boston Police horses chow on. After all, Whole Foods can be pricey.

I can't imagine what a person such as April must be like when she has a real problem.