Wandering Corgi Takes Ride On One-Eyed Pony: Watch

HALFWAY, MO — A trespassing corgi has cast some doubt on the notion that a dog is man’s best friend. In this case, the dog seems to prefer the company of a one-eyed pony named Cricket that lives in rural Halfway, Missouri, located about 30 miles north of Springfield.

Cricket’s owner, Callie Schenker, got a surprise when she pulled into her driveway on a recent evening. Her neighbor’s corgi was sitting on Cricket’s back and the pony trotted away.

She posted the hilarious video on her Facebook page, and the internet being the internet, it was viewed more than 5.4 million times and widely shared — another surprise for Schenker, who wrote she expected it to be entertain her friends and family, but not necessarily strangers around the world.

“I can’t make this stuff up,” Schenker wrote. “So we pull back in our driveway tonight and this is what we see. This is not our dog! But apparently him and Cricket, the one-eyed wonder pony, are best friends. I’m stealing the dog, new circus act!”

The corgi rode the horse like a pro, even when Cricket started trotting away.

“He rode it like people,” Schenker told the Springfield News-Leader. “That, to us, is the killer of the video — that he actually stayed on.”

Due to the popularity of the video, Schenker has been inundated with friend requests — stop it, she wrote, “I do not know you people.”

All the attention has included some speculation about the corgi and how Cricket lost his eye. It happened a long time ago in an incident that had nothing to do with the dog. And the pony’s not for sale.

That’s not to say the corgi isn’t “a pain in the butt,” Schenker told the Springfield newspaper.

He’s slipped out of her neighbor’s pet door before and pirates her dogs’ food. And he’s ridden Cricket before.

She’s not sure, but thinks the dog’s name is Roper. The neighbors are Mennonites and aren’t internet users, she said.

File photo of a corgi by Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo