Summary A tiny pony is back at its Austrian circus home more than a week after apparently being kidnapped.
A tiny pony is back at its Austrian circus home more than a week after apparently being kidnapped by a woman who wanted to give her sick daughter a Christmas surprise.
Fridolin the pony, who is only about 2 feet (60 centimeters) tall, went missing from the Vienna Christmas Circus early last week. He was found near a Vienna bus stop Wednesday.
Circus director Adolf Lauenburger told the Austria Press Agency Thursday that a woman called the circus and told officials where to find the pony. She said her daughter wanted a circus pony and she d taken him to fulfill the girl s wishes for Christmas but decided she couldn t keep the animal.
Lauenburger wasn t able to identify the woman. Police were looking into the matter.
