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.
When the weather is horrid and the world news is even more horrid, we are so blessed to be able to spend each day in the company of our adorable therapy ponies. Their world is always a happy place where they share with each other, love each other and any disagreements are sorted out quickly and then they carry on with life.![]()
If only our world was as easy as theirs!!![]()
Here they are enjoying a polo mint and hay today.![]()
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One of the reasons we can visit so many people in need with our therapy ponies is because we receive support from our sponsors. One of these sponsors is CWG Group in Stevenage, so today we dropped by their offices to thank them and catch up with Chris and his team. We are very grateful for everything CWG do for Pixie and Pickles Therapy Ponies throughout the year and cannot thank them enough for believing in us and accompanying us on some visits to see first hand the amazing work our ponies do.![]()
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Arthur and Charlie will transform from happy field mud monsters to beautiful clean therapy ponies ready for a busy day at The East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust today cheering up patients, staff and visitors. We are also popping in to say 'Hello' to one of our wonderful sponsors who continually support the amazing therapy work our po#therapyponiesarethebestarethebest
The therapy ponies have decided that we need to start building an Ark...... 😆 ![]()
Come on Spring, we are so ready for you, the sunshine, warmth, blue skies and dry fields again!!![]()
Its so hard to keep cheerful and happy when all we have is cold, mud and relentless rain. The ponies keep warm eating lots of hay and using their field shelters in this horrible weather. Pickles, Arthur and Charlie wear rugs as their hair has been clipped so they don't get too hot working indoors, but the rest of the therapy ponies have thick hair which repels rain and keeps them warm naturally.