Our Rhino Rider has gone through a few mounts, but he has had to sell a few after some broos messed about with them.
His current war-rhino has lasted for about 3 seasons so far, or perhaps a little longer.
The other PCs have the same cavalry bison and cavalry zebra that they bought as soon as they could afford them, so they have lasted probably one and a half years.
They rarely risk their mounts in combat, preferring to use missile weapons and spells at range. When they do charge in, the rhino goes first with a hefty Protection spell and goes in at speed, so there's rarely much left to attack it. The bison goes in next to mop up, followed not very closely by the zebra.
They normally heal their beasts immediately, to save buying a new one. I play that Praxians can use Heal without any penalty on their mounts, so Healing works really well (not halved for the different species).
Of course, they don't take beasts into caves or into danger areas, being the most risk-averse party I've ever played/GMed with.
In past campaigns, I never bothered to buy a war mount, or even a cavalry mount, because they probably wouldn't last the scenario, so I had a succession of identikit horses rolling off a conveyer belt.
We had a unicorn rider whose mount lasted a very, very long time. We also had a morokanth whose war slug lasted a while, but it was only brought out for special occasions. Trog's Triceratops (Trixie, I think) lasted a long while as well, but that's because he bolted bronze plates to its hide and it was probably more intelligent than he was.
We used a wagon in Dorastor, but the mounts kept getting scared and running away, until the Death Lord bought a number of draft bison and performed a ritual on them that made them stronger, untiring and pretty immune to fear-based spells, but they made Humakti a bit uneasy and could cross rivers underwater. They lasted a while until a PC Humakti noticed that they never ate and never got tired and had blank expressions on their faces .....
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