It wasn’t a cat. It wasn’t a tin roof. But one thing is for certain, a standardbred yearling found its way onto the roof of a building Tuesday, September 17 in Hampton, NB.
Pat Downey and her husband, Stephen, own the horse. Stephen’s brother, Archie, woke up to find a young colt up on a roof. He quickly snapped a photo of the youngster so that Pat and Stephen would believe his story.
“It looked like Archie had done a joke on Stephen and Photoshopped the horse on the roof because that just doesn’t happen,” Pat was quoted as saying in an article by CTV Atlantic. “You would never get a horse to do something like that."
The report explains that the yearling was coaxed off the roof and then checked for injuries. The youngster had a hoof go through the roof at one point, but no injuries are evident.
With the yearling’s fellow horses currently being trained in Saint John, the colt could have been looking for something to do.
“I think he was just bored. He’s here alone and he’s usually not alone,” Stephen was quoted as saying. “He’s like a two or three-year-old kid and he was just looking for some excitement and he got into trouble like a regular kid would do.”
(With files from CTV Atlantic)