CADOGAN — It wasn't the time or place for a pony show. This pony's one trick was getting him into a load of trouble.
A pony is lucky to be alive after it wandered away from its home and was prancing along Ford City Road on Tuesday morning.
Walking in the middle of the busy highway, the lost pony managed to dodge cars, school buses and coal trucks before it was spotted and rescued by local residents.
“It had traffic backed up,” said Lisa Anthony. “It came close to getting hit. I'm glad it didn't.”
Anthony called her husband, Terry, to bring a horse rope.
Meanwhile, Patty Pistininzi noticed the pony on the road outside of her store, Boarts Gas and Grocery. She corralled it into her fenced back yard.
“I don't know anything about horses,” Pistininzi said. “It was on the highway, and with so many coal trucks flying by, I knew it was going to be dead. So we rescued it.”
Pistininzi said the pony was well-mannered, gentle and already attached to her.
“When I went into the house to get it an apple, it whinnied for me,” she said.
Pistininzi called a neighbor who owns horses.
Wendy Hazlett came with a horse trailer and transported the pony back to her barn.
“It's a stallion. It's a red roan. It's a nice pony,” Hazlett said.
At about 8:40 last night, the owner called Hazlett.
She said it has belonged to a resident of nearby Quarry Road, who was in the process of giving the pony to his sister, a resident of the Slate Lick section of neighboring South Buffalo Township. The new owner was building a fence for the pony when it wandered off.
