At a little before 7:00 PM on December 15th police received
reports that a pony was roaming loose in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward.
According to police, the pony escaped from a pet shop near Ebisu Station. The
pony caused a small uproar on the campus of the Shibuya university where it was
found. About 20 to 30 university students watched the pony eat the university
lawn’s grass during the approximately 30 minutes it took for the shop owner to
come get the fugitive animal.
old male pony had gone missing from his cage at around 6:00 PM that evening. Pet
shop are uncertain how the two locks of the pony’s cage came undone. The pony
is now back in the pet shop and was not injured during his roughly hour long solo
outing.