A pair of zebras created problems in Sacramento County Saturday evening.Dispatchers received calls of a zebra on the loose in the area of Manzanita Avenue & Fair Oaks Boulevard around 7 p.m. Sacramento County Sheriff's deputies and animal control officers soon realized there were two animals running around the area.One of the animals evaded deputies and startled onlookers and motorists for about an hour.It was located inside a pool in an apartment complex on El Camino Avenue.The second zebra was injured after it was struck by a car and located hours later. It is expected to be okay.The animals appear to have escaped from their owner's home where they are kept as pets. 

 Zack and Adrian Reynolds were sitting at the Big 5 sporting goods store parking lot in Carmichael when something strange came running up Manzanita Avenue. 
 
 "I looked up and said, 'There's a zebra,' " said Adrian Reynolds. "It was charging at people. It was in the middle of the road. It already had been hit by a car." 
 
 There actually were two zebras running loose Saturday evening. They escaped around 6 p.m. from a Carmichael property as they were being loaded into a truck headed to an Oregon ranch. 
 
 The zebras are used at rodeos and to breed with horses to create an animal that is fun to ride, said David Mastagni, whose son owns Michael Mastagni Mule Co. in Carmichael. The zebras escaped from the son's property. 
 
 "The zebra is a good animal," David Mastagni said. 
 
 He said a dog spooked the zebras, which ran through several fences to their freedom. 
 
 One went south and was caught. The other went north before being cornered. By 11 p.m. sheriff's deputies and workers from the Mastagni operation had coaxed the second zebra into a trailer. 
 
 Zack and Adrian Reynolds said they and others chased the second zebra off Manzanita onto Jameson Court. 
 
 They had little luck initially in corralling the zebra, so someone went back to the Big 5 and bought some rope. They used the rope and some chicken wire to fence in the zebra. 
 
 Zack Reynolds said they called police but were told the zebra had already been captured, the officer apparently not realizing there was a second zebra. 
 
 A teenager tried to take the lead in capturing the animal, Zack Reynolds said. 
 
 "One kid said he lived in Idaho and used to tame wild mustangs. He put his hand in the zebra's face," Reynolds said. "Later he got kicked." 
 
 The teen was not seriously hurt. The zebras also weren't seriously injured, David Mastagni said. 
 
 The Michael Mastagni Mule Co. is in the 3800 block of Marshall Avenue in Carmichael. 
 
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– It's not uncommon for a dog or even a horse to break loose and run through a neighborhood, but residents of one Sacramento suburb were caught completely off-guard when they saw not one, but two zebras running through the streets of their neighborhood yesterday. The zebras, who are owned by an area resident who uses them in rodeos, were eventually captured, but not after leading law enforcement on a wild chase that lasted nearly five hours, reports the Sacramento Bee. The first zebra was apprehended in the pool area of an apartment complex; the second was injured after it was struck by a car. It's expected to be OK, as is a teen who tried to play the hero: "One kid said he used to tame wild mustangs," said an onlooker. "He put his hand in the zebra's face. Later he got kicked." Read the full article, or click here for the tale of another escaped zebra.