# Eohippus lives!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eohippus-lives/376049
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 11, 2006, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eohippus-lives/376049 "2006-10-11T13:44:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@FlyingDragonFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingDragonFan)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2006, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eohippus-lives/376049/1 "2006-10-11T13:44:51Z")
Check out [Thumbelina](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=409317&in_page_id=1770). A dwarf specimen of a miniature horse, she is officially (via Guiness) the world’s smallest horse.
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2006, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eohippus-lives/376049/2 "2006-10-11T13:47:35Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2006, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eohippus-lives/376049/3 "2006-10-11T13:50:30Z")
Astonishing!
They’d make good housepets.
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### Author:  [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2006, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eohippus-lives/376049/4 "2006-10-11T15:49:13Z")
'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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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2006, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eohippus-lives/376049/5 "2006-10-11T15:54:36Z")
[QUOTE=SnakesCatLady]
'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.
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eohippus-lives/376049/6 "2006-10-11T16:04:47Z")
At least I can now truthfully say that I’m hung like a horse.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eohippus-lives/376049/7 "2006-10-11T16:07:42Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor]
Astonishing!
They’d make good housepets.
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:dubious:
Can you imagine what those horseshoes would do to hardwood floors?
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### Author:  [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eohippus-lives/376049/8 "2006-10-11T16:12:56Z")
[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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### Author:  [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2006, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eohippus-lives/376049/9 "2006-10-11T16:19:30Z")
[QUOTE=velvetjones]
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.
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### Author:  [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eohippus-lives/376049/10 "2006-10-11T16:49:10Z")
[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.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eohippus-lives/376049/11 "2006-10-11T17:06:51Z")
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!
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eohippus-lives/376049/12 "2006-10-11T17:31:00Z")
> [@](#):
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> At least I can now truthfully say that I’m hung like a horse.
You did catch the part about Thumbelina being a mare, right?
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### Author:  [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eohippus-lives/376049/13 "2006-10-11T18:05:47Z")
[QUOTE=Hal Briston]
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.
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### Author:  [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2006, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eohippus-lives/376049/14 "2006-10-12T01:04:21Z")
[nitpick] if it were really Eohippus, wouldn’t it have four toes ? [/nitpick]
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### Author:  [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2006, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eohippus-lives/376049/15 "2006-10-12T02:01:54Z")
[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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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2006, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eohippus-lives/376049/16 "2006-10-12T04:41:20Z")
[QUOTE=Lumpy]
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” 😃