Equidae

Horses and donkeys are animals mentioned before and after the Great War.

Background
Some equidae survived the war, though none are directly encountered and are mentioned only.

Mentions

 * Dane, one of the Children of the Cathedral, will mention horses in his ramblings.
 * A man named Irwin will share information with the Vault Dweller about his donkey, Pugsley, who was killed by raiders.
 * When talking to Ethyl Wright, the Chosen One may mention enjoying fermented mare's milk, a mare being a female horse.
 * A "Horse Marker" can be found in the G.E.C.K. This is a leftover from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, similar to the unused "Rumors" function in quests.
 * A toy called the Giddyup Buttercup was popular before the war.
 * Swank refers to New Vegas as a "wild horse" when the Courier asks for his thoughts on Robert House.
 * There is a book entitled Pretty Pretty Horsies: A History of the Mongol Empire available in Fallout: New Vegas. It is a quest item for convincing the Great Khans to break their alliance with Caesar's Legion, by revealing the history of their namesake ancestors.
 * There is a horse toy shown on the Big Ranch Nevada State Lotto billboard in the Mojave Wasteland.
 * In the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Honest Hearts, the war clubs used by the Dead Horses have been carved into the shape of a horse head.
 * On the cover of Tales of Chivalrie, a knight is seen, riding a horse while fighting a dragon.
 * There is a drawing of a horse, chicken and cow used in a framed picture near Bunker Hill in Fallout 4. The same drawing appears at an unmarked trapper outpost northwest of the MS Azalea, in the add-on Far Harbor.
 * A horse is part of the Paul Revere Monument in Boston.
 * There is a horse on a Flatwoods Tavern sign.
 * Story Time Miss Nanny mentions horses during the story "Cinderella" that she will tell to the Vault Dweller as part of a random encounter.
 * Several different varieties of horses serve as part of the carousel ride at Camden Park.
 * Scout Leader Jaggy laments about missing the sight of horses in Appalachia.
 * Horses are referenced in the description of the Ol' Painless weapon in Fallout Shelter.
 * Horse trailers are found on roadways and in barns around Appalachia.
 * Thurston Wellingham mentions a fully-staffed horse riding stable available to children at Bolton Greens.


 * Non-game
 * The donkey from Fallout is commented upon in the Fallout Bible.
 * In the graphic novel All Roads, an NCR soldier seen in Chance's flashback of the Bitter Springs Massacre is riding a horse.

Behind the scenes

 * Joshua Sawyer stated during an October 2020 livestream that horses were never considered for implementation in Fallout: New Vegas, as they did not seem appropriate.


 * On January 24, 2013, Fandom user "StylesV13" added a quote from a personal email claiming to be from a correspondence with developer Chris Avellone. The contents of the email pertain to the appearance of horses in the All Roads comic as "an error (no one noticed it until too late)," Raul Tejada originally mentioning horses in one of his stories, and stating that horses are completely extinct in the Fallout series.
 * The contents of the email cannot be independently verified. While a quoted portion has existed in this article since 2013, the screenshot of the email did not surface until 2014 where it was uploaded by a different, unrelated user on a separate website. Comments on the file suggest it was taken from the now-defunct Bethesda forums, but a link to the original post or thread has not survived.
 * When asked about the StylesV13 email about horses in September 2020, developer Joshua Sawyer commented that he was not immediately familiar with the horses appearing as an error in All Roads, the concept of horses being completely extinct in Fallout, or Chris Avellone expressing it. He had "no idea" about this information, and that if he ever knew, it was "lost like dust in the wind."