Corporate Horses

Your financers buy you a horse.

You learn how to ride a horse and train the horse and breed it's offspring to take you to interesting places.

After a great trip on the third generation horse, your financers cut the travel budget and tell you to get into the trucking business so...

You kill the horse off and get an elephant. The security department keeps talking about how the elephant needs to be able to not only go forward but also go sideways quite a bit, so you cross-breed it with a crab.

You work the elephant to death and you can't convince the finance guys to fund more than a subsistence diet.

A new CEO comes in and says "we need to start going to interesting places again, and by the way, the finance guys are going to cut your budget.

Your animal handlers tell you that you better start trying to clone a horse. Meanwhile the elephant keeps taking more and more frequent sick days.