Pixie & Pickles Adventures offers a unique service using Shetland Ponies.
We visit your home or establishment with selected ponies for therapy visits. Our ponies even have special pants to wear so that we can avoid mishaps! Our ponies are kind, gentle and loveable and adore their role as therapy ponies.
So what are therapy ponies and how can they help?
Studies have shown that human interaction with animals provides many benefits in all age groups. The presence of animals not only improves a person’s emotional health but also physical.
Horses are known to be sensitive and intuitive and they mirror human emotions.
Horses allow people to relax as they accept everyone without judgement.
Benefits of Pony therapy include:
- Lowers anxiety and stress
- Stimulates endorphins helping depression
- Reduces blood pressure
- Stimulates memory
Our ponies can visit:
- Care homes
- Womens refuge’s
- Mens refuge’s
- Hospitals
- Hospices
- Schools
- Private homes
We can also come along to your event! Get in touch for more information.
The weather may be damp and miserable this weekend, but we are so lucky to have the facilities to bring all the therapy ponies in to warm up, dry off and have a break from the elements. Charlie and Arthur have given their stable to Romeo and the boys have moved into a lovely new stable made by Sean, next to Oliver and Bluebell. Pickles hates to share with anyone, so she has her own bedroom. Barney has to be in his own bed whilst he is still young, otherwise he just plays and trashes the joint and Romeo likes to take his time eating his hay so sharing isnt an option for him either. Toby fell in love with and worked his charm on our old girl Bessie, so she doesnt mind sharing her stable with him. They can all see and talk to each other so everyone is happy.![]()
Winter, we are ready for you!!![]()
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CUDDLE: Hold close in one's arms as a way of showing love.![]()
LOVE: An intense feeling of deep affection.![]()
HUG: Squeeze tightly in one's arms.![]()
STROKE: Move one's hand with gentle caress.![]()
KISS: Touch with the lips as a sign of affection. ![]()
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All of the above are compulsory and often involuntary when anybody is lucky enough to meet our adorable therapy ponies. Everyone's first reaction is OMG, Ahh, Aww or a squeel..... immediately followed by the ponies being cuddled, hugged, stroked and kissed which is exactly the reaction th#therapyponiesarethebestrapyponiesarethebest
No visits today so our therapy ponies are taking the opportunity to relax and catch up with each other, whilst dining on some hay, before normal visits resume again tomorrow.![]()
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