{"id":416897,"date":"2026-07-29T19:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/416897\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T19:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:03:15","slug":"watch-shetland-pony-found-wandering-loose-in-california-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/416897\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Shetland pony found wandering loose in California neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 29 (UPI) &#8212; Police in California &#8220;got in a pony pursuit&#8221; when a small Shetland pond was spotted running loose on a road in a San Jose neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>The San Jose Police Department said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DbMJVxSmH0d\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=AhkYV7Dqr1JQjnzpCl_YCk9&amp;img_index=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on social media<\/a> that officers were dispatched recently on a report of a diminutive equine on the loose in a residential area.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks to the horsepower of our patrol cars, responding officers were able to locate the little pony trotting around in a neighborhood,&#8221; the post said.<\/p>\n<p>Police were able to contact the pony&#8217;s owner and return it home safely. The owner said the animal had escaped the previous night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are glad this little adventure seeker is back home safe and done hoofin&#8217; around,&#8221; officials wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 29 (UPI) &#8212; Police in California &#8220;got in a pony pursuit&#8221; when a small Shetland pond was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2113,7761,3554,88,90,89,7760],"class_list":["post-416897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-animals","tag-funny","tag-odd","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}