There are five houses in a row each painted a different colour. In each house lives a person from a different country. Each person drinks a certain drink, plays a certain sport, and keeps a certain animal. No two people drink the same drink, play the same sport, or keep the same animal. One person keeps a zebra as a pet, yes, very odd but this is always so in the puzzle.

These facts are what we know:

      1.  The Italian lives in the red house 
      2.  The Swede keeps dogs 
      3.  The Dane drinks tea 
      4.  The green house is immediately on the left of the white house
      5.  The owner of the green house drinks coffee 
      6.  The person who plays golf rears birds 
      7.  The owner of the yellow house plays hockey 
      8.  The man living in the house in the centre drinks milk 
      9.  The Norwegian lives in the first house 
      10. The woman who plays tennis lives next to the man who keeps cats 
      11. The person who keeps a horse lives next to the one who plays hockey 
      12. The man who plays billiards drinks beer 
      13. The German plays football
      14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
      15. The woman who plays tennis has a neighbour who drinks wine

Now can you tell me — who owns the Zebra?

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