{"id":3747,"date":"2025-11-27T15:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/27\/meet-the-worlds-smallest-horse\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T15:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:05:09","slug":"meet-the-worlds-smallest-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/27\/meet-the-worlds-smallest-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the world&#039;s smallest horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-11-27 15:05:07<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>The world&#8217;s smallest horse has been revealed.<BR><br \/>\nPumuckel is the planet\u2019s newest equine icon, standing at 52.6 cm tall.<BR><br \/>\nThe pint-sized powerhouse, from Germany, is making him more than 4 cm shorter than the previous record-holder, Poland\u2019s Bombel.<BR><br \/>\nPumuckel recently strutted onto German TV for Guinness World Records \u2013 Die Grosse Show der Weltrekorde, where he served as a glamorous assistant handing out certificates.<BR><br \/>\nBut back on the farm, he still mucks in with daily chores for owner Carola Weidemann, who first met him completely by accident.<BR><br \/>\nShe told Guinness World Records: &#8220;I drove over, took a look at him and was truly, completely shocked. I had never seen such a small, little horse before.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nShe adopted him in 2020 when he was just five months old, standing a staggering 47 cm and weighing under 20 kg. <BR><br \/>\nHis size was not engineered &#8211; just a \u201cquirk of nature,\u201d Carola says.<BR><br \/>\nNow trained as a therapy horse, Pumuckel visits nursing homes, hospices, schools and disability centres, charming everyone he encounters. <BR><br \/>\nHe adores cuddles, scratches, and any snack resembling a carrot or apple.<BR><br \/>\nCarola said: &#8220;He has a very lovable character. Pumuckel loves being the centre of attention.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-11-27 15:05:07 The world&#8217;s smallest horse has been revealed. Pumuckel is the planet\u2019s newest equine icon, standing at 52.6 cm tall. The pint-sized powerhouse, from Germany, is making him more&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3749,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions\/3749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}