User blog comment:MDGeistMD02/Horses in Dishonored/@comment-16241899-20131120175936

I agree with CrabShack in many parts. I think the discovery of whale oil as a source of energy is indeed the main reason why horses are never encountered or mentioned in the game. They were replaced by electrical devices and there's no need to keep or use horses anymore, so they vanished from the streets and from people's awareness.

But I think, since that pic of the horse-drawn carriage appears in-game as a painting, horses DO exist in the Dishonored universe, for the same reason that I think cats exist.

And horsemeat? I hope, not... OO