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.
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.
:dubious:
Can you imagine what those horseshoes would do to hardwood floors?
Not to mention the fact that horses are generally not house broken.
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.
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?
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]
Only if it came from a lost valley somewhere south of the Rio Grande.
Ah, I see someone else has seen “The Valley of Gwangi”