An investigation is continuing Thursday into a reportedly stolen pony belonging to a 6-year-old boy in Jurupa Valley.
Ruben Vasquez Jr. raised his horse, Little Evil, since he was only a few months old, according to KCAL9, having just started to learn how to ride him.
Little Evil was discovered missing Friday, an hour after Vasquez’s father came home to see the usual two ponies in a pen, one for each of the family’s children. When he returned to feed them, only the larger one was still there.
Lt. Deirdre Vickers of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department told City News Service on Wednesday that the office was in the midst of investigating the disappearance.
“I imagine they wanted [the larger] one but couldn’t take him out and took the other one,” Ruben Vasquez Sr. said.
After considering the possibility that Little Evil had run away, the family found bolt cutters and a broken fence nearby.
Although the family has started to raise funds for a replacement animal, they are still hoping for Little Evil’s return. Vasquez Jr. said he was heartbroken, telling KCAL that he misses his pet.
“I can’t believe it,” said Myra Anguiano, Vasquez Jr.’s mother “Very heartbreaking for me as a mother to see my son being so sad about it.”