Dog and pony show draws cops to South Side.

Dog and pony show draws cops to South Side.

YOUNGSTOWN — It’s unusual in the city to find a pony following a dog along Glenwood Avenue on the South Side.

But that’s what happened Friday evening when police responded to a number of calls of a small horse at Glenwood and Judson avenues.

When Detective Sgt. Michael Brian Flynn and Patrol Officers Robert Giovanni and Gregory Mullennex arrived, they reported they spotted a dog leading the pony down the Glenwood sidewalk. They followed the animals east on Mistletoe Avenue, south on Firnley Avenue to Midlothian Boulevard and on through some backyards.

Bodnar got out of his cruiser and began a foot pursuit, corralling the animals in a fenced in backyard. By this time, Dave Nelson, deputy Mahoning County dog warden arrived, who had no way to transport the horse.

Then, Matt Ditchey of Angels for Animals arrived but he took had no way to get the pony to his Green Township farm.

Finally, Flynn called on officers using an old K-9 cruiser with no back seat that was being used to patrol the East Side to take both pony and dog to the farm.