Ohio Supreme Court: No To Pet Duck Issue

The Ohio Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal by a Coshocton County military veteran who sought to defy local law and keep pet ducks that he says help relive his post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. Darin Welker was convicted of a minor misdemeanor for violating a ban on keeping farm animals in West Lafayette. A state appeals court upheld his conviction in June. Welker argued that the half-dozen ducks have been therapeutic for him after he served in Iraq with the army and was medically discharged from the Ohio National Guard. Welker previously suggested he’d try to get his property moved from the village if the appeals route didn’t work