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They're everywhere!
If you have the Pets expansion pack, you may have noticed the new horse gnomes. And I say that tongue in cheek, because if you have played Pets for more than five minutes, you probably have a horse gnome. They are everywhere!Traditionally, you had to go out and hunt gnomes. You could find them in the tombs, make one on the mad scientist bench, split them out of space rocks on the rock-breaking martial arts set, and so forth. It was an active process. You knew when you got a gnome. They didn't just, like appear out of nowhere.
(The exception to this is vampire gnomes. A vampire gnome would often appear on your property if you grow a plasma fruit bush. And if you have a vampire gnome on your property, and you leave a teddy bear unattended, the vampire gnome will convert it into another vampire gnome. How fiendish!)
The horse gnomes are called "Zenyatta," named after the champion racehorse who blew away the records by winning 19 consecutive races in a row. They are small blood bay horses (red-brown coats with black tails), marked with four white socks and a white blaze on the face. Each one wears a red pointed gnome cap with a yellow horseshoe on the front, and - most peculiarly of all - a lemon yellow jacket with a white collar.
The Zenyattas strike a number of horsy poses. I have seen them curled up asleep on the floor, leaping over a small white jump, rearing, and trotting. They also follow the same flocking behavior as the other gnomes on my property. Invariably they are all clustered together somewhere outside.
In addition, the Zenyattas can leave produce around for your horses.
Zenyatta gnomes spawn when your horse or unicorn uses a salt lick. Each time your horse uses a salt lick for 80 minutes, there is a chance that Zenyatta will spawn. This chance increases by .2% for every 20 additional minutes your horse uses the salt lick.
Something about the spawning rules seems to create a lot more Zenyattas than any other gnome. People online report having as many as 15 at a time! They can really become a problem if you get the Celestial Salt Lick Lifetime Happiness reward, because horses use it more often than the regular salt lick, and for a longer period of time.
Luckily, each Zenyatta is worth $1,000 so if you find yourself with a surplus, you can make a tidy bit of cash by selling them!
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