After spending a year absolutely obsessed with getting the right dog for each of my dolls (every doll *must* have a dog, according to my rules :)), I find that I have a new obsession; horses!

Unfortunately, for reasons I cannot figure out, doll manufacturers appear to) believe that a horse is around the size of a large dog. Emphatically, it is not. It is a big beast which ought to tower over a doll, and not something that looks like it might break beneath their weight.

Here are some dolls and their proposed horses from several manufacturers.

1/6th scale dolls like Barbie

Barbie and a great dane-sized horse

1/4th scale dolls like American Girl

The height isn’t terrible, but the relative head sizes are completely off.

And the dolls don’t seem to work any better with classic horses, like Breyer. Here’s Daisy with the larger of the Breyer horses.

Comparisons of dolls and horses, for the blog post at https://mydolladventure.wordpress.com/2018/06/07/horses-for-dolls-finding-the-right-size-horse-for-your-1-6-and-1-4-scale-dolls/

My solution, as with apparently all of my solutions recently, is to see what the Our Generation dolls at Target have to offer (I swear I am making no money from this brand – all of the money is flowing the other way.)

Here’s Daisy again with one of the Our Generation foals.

Daisy leads Star home as Scrappy watches. [The horses made for Barbie dolls are far too small. This horse, a foal from Our Generation (for 18″ dolls) is just he right size.]

I think they look pretty good together.

Even better, I think, are the Our Generation full size horses for my 1/4th scale dolls (who, at 16″ are just slightly smaller than the 18″ dolls these horses were designed for.) Here’s Olive (Amy from Iplehouse) in various poses with the poseable Morgan horse from this line.

Comparisons of dolls and horses, for the blog post at https://mydolladventure.wordpress.com/2018/06/07/horses-for-dolls-finding-the-right-size-horse-for-your-1-6-and-1-4-scale-dolls/

Comparisons of dolls and horses, for the blog post at https://mydolladventure.wordpress.com/2018/06/07/horses-for-dolls-finding-the-right-size-horse-for-your-1-6-and-1-4-scale-dolls/

Comparisons of dolls and horses, for the blog post at https://mydolladventure.wordpress.com/2018/06/07/horses-for-dolls-finding-the-right-size-horse-for-your-1-6-and-1-4-scale-dolls/

And here she is with both the full sized horse and the foal (who looks tiny without Daisy standing beside him).

Comparisons of dolls and horses, for the blog post at https://mydolladventure.wordpress.com/2018/06/07/horses-for-dolls-finding-the-right-size-horse-for-your-1-6-and-1-4-scale-dolls/

The poseable Morgan horse is no longer available from Target, but I got him at the great price of $13 off of ebay. There’s a new poseable Thoroughbred now at Target, along with a bunch of horses which aren’t poseable. My one wish for the big horse is for his head to be poseable – as it is, only his legs are.

My 1/3rd scale dolls are horseless – I don’t have room for anything that would fit them – but if you want a good laugh, here’s the big guy (Granado Udell) posing on the foal.

Comparisons of dolls and horses, for the blog post at https://mydolladventure.wordpress.com/2018/06/07/horses-for-dolls-finding-the-right-size-horse-for-your-1-6-and-1-4-scale-dolls/

So, my house is now completely horsed up. I got so deep into it that I got a stable for the foal, which you can see a bit of in this shot:

For this, the Our Generation stable was simply too big for Daisy – it’s sized for the 1/4th dolls. But Battat (the same company that does Our Generation) has some items for 14″ dolls (like Wellie Wishers) in their Glitter Girls line. That’s where I got the stable. Oddly, although this is supposed to be a Target brand, it doesn’t show up on their site. I had to buy it at Amazon.

Here’s a better picture of the stable, along with the Glitter Girls horses who weren’t realistic-looking enough to make it onto my wish list:

 And that’s all of the horse news for today.