On a late afternoon walk around Fort York and the CNE we found these two small horses (donkey? pony? mini-horse?) tied to a tree outside the new townhomes along East Libery near Strachan, grazing on the small patch of lawn. One of the windows on the right opened and a woman stuck out her head and said “go ahead and pet them, they’re friendly.” Then she pulled her head back inside and shut the window. There were no visible farm-implements nearby but we figured they might be somehow related to the Royal Winter Fair wrapping up today at the CNE. Later we saw cattle being led out of the CNE grounds crossing Strachan to the waiting livestock trailers in the park. With all the manure in the streets, it was like old Muddy York come to life.
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Must be a new landscaping company that mows lawns naturally. Fertilizes at the same time.
We need them to mow the weeds growing along the streets, since the city is not.
They look like Shetland ponies to me.
I think Shetland ponies are larger. Mini horse might be more accurate. I just looked at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature_horse … they use them as “service animals”. Like a seeing-eye horse? So maybe the lady was visiting her friend who had a horse hair allergy and the poor guys had to wait outside?
I love when Toronto gets weird like this. My favourite thing about the city is the way it surprises you.
Later that night, I saw the lady giving the “horses” beer. You cannot make that stuff up.
The Royal isn’t wrapping up today – it runs from Nov 6-14! There’s lots of time left to see the ponies (and goats, sheep, cows, snakes, turtles, bees, etc!)
This post was from 2008! Last year – no worries on the date.
Oops! Followed the link from Twitter and didn’t check the date. And hey, my ‘corrected’ date was wrong too – it doesn’t end until the 15th. 🙂