Australian horse owner Jenny Mahoney awoke one day last week to find a strange horse in her pasture. Sadly, this story isn't uncommon. But this one has a twist. "I only have the one, McBeal, so I slowly approached the strange horse, saying 'Steady, easy fella,' " she told the Herald Sun . "It was only when I got right up to it in the dark that I realised it was a life-size, fiberglass horse." The Mahoneys...
A man was charged with harassment after authorities say he sent the head of a plush toy horse to a state senator, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. State police said a man hand-delivered a package to the West Deptford, N.J., office of state Sen. Stephen Sweeney. The man told staffers the package was for Sweeney, but also mentioned it could be given to Gov.-elect Chris Christie. There was neither...
Elmer Bandit, the 38-year-old competitive trail horse who broke the record for lifetime mileage last year , is one of our favorite examples of a geriatric horse. But a horse now on display at the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre in Whitehorse, Canada, has him beat by more than a nose. (Although definitely not a live nose.) The fossilized Yukon horse ( Equus lambei ) is estimated to be 26,000 years...
Weird things happen to horses. Horses are big. They're curious. They eat things they shouldn't. Many of them live in areas nature never intended for them to be, often with other species they weren't intended to mix with. People use them to perform tasks they weren't designed to do. Roll all of this up, and weird things happen to horses. And, because they're considered fairly exotic animals by the majority...
