LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – Dozens of urban livestock owners attended a town hall Thursday evening with Councilwoman Jennifer Chappell to address an ordinance she sponsored that could force them to give up their miniature horses, pigs and other animals, or relocate to homes with larger acreage.
Chappell invited the community to the livestock town hall after pledging in December to look into changes regarding acceptable parcel sizes that were tucked into her October ordinance.
In December 2025, WAVE News talked to Susan Bruner, who has kept her miniature horse Bandit at her Germantown home for 20 years. At that time, Bruner was concerned about the ordinance Metro Council passed in October, which required pet dogs and cats in the city to be microchipped…