Did you know there are over a hundred horse breeds in the world? Some of them are well-known like my breed, the American Quarter Horse, some are not so well-known like the Russian Vyatka pony or the Japanese Yonaguni. One thing is for sure, though we may look different in height, weight, and conformation, but we all have a mane, tail and four hooves! And we are all Equidae. In other words, we all belong to the horse family. Did you know that horses first appeared in the world some 54 million years ago? That means we’ve been around longer than humans! Of course, our ancestors didn’t look much like us modern horses, the Eohippus being about 3 to 4 hands tall with four toes on its front legs and three toes on its hind legs, or so Chewbakka, the little Siamese mix cat, tells me. I asked him one day how he knows all this stuff and he said it’s because he sits on our mistress’s desk while she’s surfing the Internet and learns about all kinds of things. Maybe I should try looking over her shoulder one day while she’s surfing the Internet… Naw! It’s much more fun spending the day grazing in the sun and dozing in the shade. Grazing and dozing: that’s right down my alley.