Free-roaming horse Jenny cheers up German lockdown

[demmiblue]

Frankfurt am Main (AFP) - Every morning white mare Jenny leaves her stable to stroll through her Frankfurt neighbourhood. Bringing trams to a halt and smiles to people's faces, the free-roaming horse is brightening up the coronavirus lockdown for many.

"Everyone else has to live with coronavirus restrictions but Jenny is as free as ever," her owner Anna Weischedel, 65, told AFP.

For more than a decade Jenny has wandered solo through her local Fechenheim area, a green part of Frankfurt on the bank of the Main river.

She explores the high street, trots along the tram line to a nearby field and spends hours nibbling on patches of grass.

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To avoid misunderstandings, since people have in the past called the police to report an unaccompanied horse, Jenny wears a note around her neck that reads: "I haven't run away, I'm just out for a walk."

The daily ramble ends at around 4:00 pm, when Anna's 80-year-old husband, Werner, jumps on his e-scooter to find Jenny along her usual route and tell her it's home time.

"And then she slowly heads back," said Werner, a retired flower shop owner.

https://news.yahoo.com/free-roaming-horse-jenny-cheers-german-lockdown-014109749.html

[Solly Mack]

1. :)

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Thank you, Jenny!

Thank you, too, demmiblue!

[hlthe2b]

3. Jenny cheers me up too. My uncle had a very well-known Basset Hound in a tiny MO farm town

who did this everyday. That dog truly was a "village" doggy and had quite the life. Everyone watched out for Poindexter.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

4. "There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man."

Winston S. Churchill

[BlancheSplanchnik]

5. Das ist sehr suss ❤️

[Scarsdale]

6. Jenny looks like a gentle soul.

Pretty girl. What a life she is living, free to roam. Thanks for posting this, plus the photos.

[Botany]

7. ein weies Pferd

Ja!

[mollie8]

8. Jenny

This post warms my heart. Thank you!