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.
Our therapy ponies enjoyed a visit from the amazing Sara Peach Bond today. Sara is Pixie and Pickles Therapy Ponies official 'hairdresser' and she always makes our ponies look smart and tidy for their important therapy visits. Clipping small shetlands isnt the easiest of jobs as Sara has to spend most of her time sitting on the floor or squatting low to reach under their little tummies, but the ponies love her to bits and enjoy her removing their thick winter coats. The birds were also very busy taking hair from this pile to line their nests 😁
I have to ask the question why do we bother buying and building not one, but TWO roomy field shelters to provide ample shade and protection from the elements for our therapy ponies when they ALL opt to stand outside it!! 🤣![]()
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Pickles agrees there's nothing better than a juicy apple when she's visiting people in their workplace. An apple a day keeps the vet away.... It's such a hard life being a cute the#therapyponiesarethebestoniesarethebest
Pickles and Charlie met so many wonderful and inspiring people at the North London Hospice today, and we are looking forward to returning again to give more pony love and cuddles.![]()
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