A sturdy pony has been credited with helping caretakers attend to animals stranded in a recent Virginia snowstorm. Half a dozen donkeys and llamas were stranded in a lower shed at Leesburg Animal Park, Leesburg Today reported. The animals had hay but no water. Staff members tried to use a tractor to reach them, but the machine became stuck in deep drifts of snow. Resigned, they started slowly digging...
A man was charged with harassment after authorities say he sent the head of a plush toy horse to a state senator, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. State police said a man hand-delivered a package to the West Deptford, N.J., office of state Sen. Stephen Sweeney. The man told staffers the package was for Sweeney, but also mentioned it could be given to Gov.-elect Chris Christie. There was neither...
A horse can thank some rubbery shrubbery for breaking his fall after the animal tumbled off a hillside, the San Gabriel Valley News reported. Los Angeles County Fire Department Capt. Lee Knott told the paper the animal got loose and ran off the edge of a steep hill. "It got spooked and ran off the edge," Knott said. "It fell off the edge into the shrubs and got entangled and rolled over on its back...
A zedonk (a zebra/donkey hybrid) at a farm market in Spring Lake, Fla., attacked a worker last weekend, biting the man on his feet and legs as he attempted to crawl away. Hernando Today reported that James Oleson, 34, was painting an outer perimeter fence when the zedonk ducked under its own enclosure fence to bite him on the foot. Oleson was knocked to the ground and the animal continued to bite at...
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...
