Deer. Check. Raccoon. Check. Zebra…..Uh……
A woman in Muskogee, Oklahoma has been fortunate enough to get a picture of the extremely rare Oklahoma zebra (stripus soonerus). These graceful animals used to roam the hills and valleys of Oklahoma in great herds that reportedly shook the ground with their passing.
Yeah, ok, we made that all up. Except the zebra part.
When Sharon McConough heard her dog barking like crazy, she thought she was dreaming when she looked outside.
Deer and raccoon regularly visit her Ranger Creek home east of Fort Gibson Dam, but she was shocked to see a zebra last Tuesday night.
She ran to get her camera because she knew no one would believe her if she told them she saw a zebra in her yard.
Bizzy, her large, white shepherd, barks sometimes, but he was really barking that night, so she knew something was wrong.
“It was about midnight, and I’d just shut off my computer and I got up and went to look outside. It’s so weird, you can’t imagine what it’s like to look out a glass door and see a zebra trotting down the driveway.”
She is sure he’s visited before because she’s found several clues.
“The dog food was scattered everywhere, and the dog doesn’t do that. There were dog food pieces in the water bowl, and he doesn’t do that either.”
The zebra in the picture (at the link) is wearing a halter. So it must have thrown its rider.
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