Five days after she went missing, Houston mare Miss B turned up at a bus stop, The Houston Chronicle reported. Her owners' friend alerted the family when she saw the mare tied to a metro sign on Tuesday about a half-mile from home.
The neighborhood search for Miss B began last Thursday, when the mare, spooked by thunder, bolted from her shed. With neighbors on the lookout, no one's sure where she spent her free time--but there's one clue.
“It looked like somebody had been riding her. I could tell that a saddle had been put on her,” her owner told the paper. But she said she's just grateful whoever had Miss B left her in a location where she was easy to find.
An Australian man was arrested after allegedly videotaping a horse as it died after he shot it with a crossbow and kicked it, The Australian reports. Someone who saw the video reported the incident to the police.
As you might have read in the "Horses and The Law" blog, the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week heard oral arguments in United States v. Stevens, in which a key issue is whether regulating depictions of animal cruelty limits free speech. Read more about that case.
There are LOLcats and LOLdogs. Can we propose a site for LOLponehs?
That's it for now, peeps--I'm going to be out of the office for the next few days. As always, if you see something weird and horsey, holler at me or put it in the comments below!