(Photo Courtesy of KDKA-TV, CBS Pittsburgh, Posted on Facebook on November 20th, 2025)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A male horse named Cannonball retired yesterday after he worked with the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police Mounted Patrol. Cannonball served in that position for eight years and is leaving the city stables on the North Side of Pittsburgh and he was taken to Bella Terra Stables in Murrysville yesterday. Cannonball will be celebrated in a special event on December 13th, 2025 at Bella Terra Stables when its horses will join Santa Claus. Cannonball will become a therapy horse to help young people, which includes those with both disabilities and post-traumatic stress disorder. According to Officer Jamie Bush, “He’s a great horse, gentle, kind, patient, and pretty much bulletproof when it comes to sensory stuff Downtown and crowd control.”