March 19th 2014: Dogs & Horses.

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Originally Posted by Carruthers

The native heavy horses, the Shire, Clydesdale and Suffolk Punch are magnificent creatures but they are rather scarce these days.

I always thought they were unusual, but it never occurred to me that they are scarce, like we might want to keep some around as a resource in case we ever need them in the future.

I'd love to see a graph of the world population of horses and also horse varieties.