1000+ Wilds!

Here is our 1000th (recorded) wild! 

(There have been a couple wilds we accidentally sold before recording, so he's probably more like # 1005, but close enough!)

Quite a cool Alpine wild! I especially liked how his flaxen mane and tail turn red at the bottom. Lily did not let us keep him, but we had fun riding him around for a while. 

We were mildly disappointed when nothing happened when we logged in on Mom's birthday. But about a minute in, cheery music started playing, and colorful sparkles and birthday-themed greetings popped on the screen.

We didn't get a virtual birthday cake like we did on HI2 (we still have several sitting in our inventory there, ha ha), but we did get some other goodies!

Aw, thank you, HI3! We have not used the wishing well coins yet, but I think we should each get to throw one and see what happens.

To celebrate both these achievements (1000 wilds captured and Mom making it another year), enjoy these screenshots of our top 20 most amusing auto-generated wild names.

I think this is my favorite. XD

As we mentioned before, she really was gaited!

Appropriately, this one was ornery.

We also recently found a "Butter."

Our newest HI3 news is that we found yet another May contender for joining the herd! She was hanging out with 4 other wilds when Cloud and Pepsi happened upon them - that blob in the way back center is her. 

Interestingly, Pepsi wouldn't have been riding anywhere near here if I hadn't forgotten about a mail mission I never completed the day before. You're welcome, everybody.

Any guesses from a quick look what it is that makes her so special?

It's her speed! She squeaked by Topi by .1 mph to become the fastest wild we've ever caught! Her sprint boost is also quite impressive: in our top 5.

For comparison, here are Topi's original screenshots:

Don't worry, Topi. Bethany's not letting you go anywhere, and you're still our tall-fence-jumping king!

While our fastest wilds have all been horses, not ponies, which makes sense, I find it cool how different they've all been from each other. They've ranged in height from 15.2 hands (3rd fastest):

to 19 hands (4th fastest):

Here's our 5th fastest, who's about Windfall's height but is built way differently:

I like that gender doesn't seem to matter - 3 of our 5 fastest have been mares! =^) Biome seems to play a part (3 of our 5 came from savanna), but they can clearly crop up elsewhere too, like in the desert and fall forest.

Here is what Loch Ness looks like under saddle:

She looks a bit like Topi crossed with an Arabian to me. XD