Weird BUT true

It might have been a tale of whoa!

But a miniature horse, missing and presumed dead during Japan’s devastating floods, turned up alive Monday — on the roof of a private home.

Leaf, a 9-year-old mare, was found caked in mud with minor injuries a few miles from wwhere she disappeared from a senior citizens’ home in KaKakehashi, where she’s

used for animal therapy.

This squirrel video is nuts — and gross. A video of a squirrerel eating the contents of a used condom, postposted by Emily Cole, a nanny in Portland, Maine, has gongone viral. In the background of the clip, one youngster can be heard saying, “It looks like a balloon . . . Is there stuff inside of it?”

An alligator was captured in a pond on Wednesday, not in Florida — but in the northern Indiana city of Plymouth.

Two local residents caught the 3-foot-long reptile, nicknamed Ali, which is believed to have been someone’s pet.

They turned the critter over to cops, who hope to find it a home in a zoo.

A photo shoot turned into a shark attack for an Instagram model.

The “Jaws”-like moment happened when 19-year-old Katarina Zarutskie decided to swim with nurse sharks in the Bahamas.

“I was pulled underwater for a few seconds,” Zarutski said. “And then ripped my wrist out of the shark’s mouth as fast as I could.”

One more squirrelly tale. A 40-foot-tall squirrel made of straw and wood is sitting in the Kazakhstan city of Almaty.

It’s art, say defenders of the $67,000 work, funded in part by the government. It’s a waste of money, say critics.