POLICE THWART PONY'S ESCAPE.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer QUARTZ HILL - Sheriff's deputies had to act as horse wranglers Noun 1. horse wrangler - a cowboy who takes care of the saddle horses wrangler cowboy, cowhand, cowherd, cowman, cowpoke, cowpuncher, puncher, cattleman - a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback Wednesday morning, corralling a pony that got out of its pen and was wandering Wandering See also Adventurousness, Bohemianism, Journey, Quest. Ahasuerus German name for the Wandering Jew. [Ger. Lit. through a Quartz Hill neighborhood. Helped by a resident, deputies on foot chased the pony along Avenue L-8 before they cornered it at a wall adjoining a housing tract, and the resident slipped a rope around its neck. ``Before it started running into traffic we wanted to get it stopped, get it corralled,'' said Deputy Mark Round of the Lancaster sheriff's station. ``It may not seem like law enforcement work but it's one of the many things we have to deal with in our day-to-day work.'' The resident volunteered to take the pony home until Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County animal control officers arrived to impound impound v. 1) to collect funds, in addition to installment payments, from a person who owes a debt secured by property, and place them in a special account to pay property taxes and insurance when due. the animal. The pony's owner called animal control officials Wednesday afternoon and arranged to pick it up. |
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