# Could you train a horse to live on the moon?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 18, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-train-a-horse-to-live-on-the-moon/1018485 "2025-05-18T00:24:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-train-a-horse-to-live-on-the-moon/1018485/41 "2025-05-19T13:54:20Z")

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> If you decide to bring a baby bovine to the moon, you’d have the first “moon-calf”. Shakespeare and .G. Wells would be proud.

Bovines are already known for their translunar trajectories. You just have to get one stay up there.

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**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-train-a-horse-to-live-on-the-moon/1018485/42 "2025-05-19T14:31:38Z")

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Now if we could just teach a cat to play a fiddle. . . .

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**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-train-a-horse-to-live-on-the-moon/1018485/43 "2025-05-19T15:22:28Z")

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I heard the dish and the spoon are raising their children as forks.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-train-a-horse-to-live-on-the-moon/1018485/44 "2025-05-19T17:23:38Z")

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What kind of litter box do they put out in the flatware elementary school?

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-train-a-horse-to-live-on-the-moon/1018485/45 "2025-05-19T17:35:37Z")

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> [@mixdenny](#):
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> To heck with the nag, how about a kangaroo on the moon?

Good idea but not as a solo mission. We should send up the whole crew, Mr Green Jeans, Bunny Rabbit, Mr Moose, Grandfather Clock.

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**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-train-a-horse-to-live-on-the-moon/1018485/46 "2025-05-19T17:37:40Z")

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> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#):
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> > [@HMS\_Irruncible](#):
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> Equinauts?

> [@Peter\_Morris](#):
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> Astrohippos?

Apolloosas?

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**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-train-a-horse-to-live-on-the-moon/1018485/47 "2025-05-19T19:50:46Z")

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Rein it in, hoss!

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