Check out Thumbelina. A dwarf specimen of a miniature horse, she is officially (via Guiness) the world’s smallest horse.
Awww! What a cutie!
…But at the same time, breeding for smaller and smaller horses and having this result makes me feel a little ill.
Astonishing!
They’d make good housepets.
'Mika, at least the owners aren’t going to breed her. That would be awful.
But she really is a cutie!
A friend of mine has a minature pony she got as a rescue - he was raised with dogs and thinks he is one. Now that he’s in a pasture with a minature donkey and a full-sized horse he is acting a bit more normally.
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'Mika, at least the owners aren’t going to breed her. That would be awful.
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I was glad to see that they are essentially going to keep her as a cherished pet. If that is the result of your meddling the least you can do is take care of her! I was also glad to see the comment about not wanting her particular dwarfism to carry on.
Even so, I can’t help but be a little thrilled at the prospect of a real hobbit horse.
At least I can now truthfully say that I’m hung like a horse.
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Astonishing!
They’d make good housepets.
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:dubious:
Can you imagine what those horseshoes would do to hardwood floors?
[QUOTE=Ethilrist]
:dubious:
Can you imagine what those horseshoes would do to hardwood floors?
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Not to mention the fact that horses are generally not house broken.
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Not to mention the fact that horses are generally not house broken.
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They can be. And you can get indoor-friendly horse sneakers. They’ve trained some miniature horses (not thumbleina minature, large dog miniature) to be service animals, so they’ve considered the problems.
[QUOTE=ShibbOleth]
At least I can now truthfully say that I’m hung like a horse.
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Cold medicine all over the monitor, Shibb for the win. 
Sadly, I could think of a huge market for this kind of thing, for little girls in their pony-obsessed stage. Good to hear they’re not breeding their pet.
Ok, we’ve got horses down pat. Now when are they going to get busy breeding mini versions of other animals? I want an elephant the size of a Schnauzer, damnit!
You did catch the part about Thumbelina being a mare, right?
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I want an elephant the size of a Schnauzer, damnit!
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And I want a Schnauzer the size of an elephant!
Me: Here, Rover, here boy!
Rover, with a voice reminiscent of Darth Vader wheezing: WOOF. WOOF.
[nitpick] if it were really Eohippus, wouldn’t it have four toes ? [/nitpick]
[QUOTE=NinetyWt]
[nitpick] if it were really Eohippus, wouldn’t it have four toes ? [/nitpick]
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Only if it came from a lost valley somewhere south of the Rio Grande.
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Only if it came from a lost valley somewhere south of the Rio Grande.
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Ah, I see someone else has seen “The Valley of Gwangi”