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 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.
Our retired, very elderly horse Bessie, and our youngest and smallest therapy pony Toby, also love each other and insist on sharing a stable like Oliver and Bluebell. Happy Valentines Day everyone x
Oliver and Bluebell are best friends celebrating Valentines Day. If we put them in separate stables, they are not happy!! Sharing is everything to them.
We took Charlie and Arthur to visit the lovely staff and clients at Ware Road Day Service (Hertford) today. The ponies got everyone stroking and cuddling them very quickly and enjoyed going for a little stroll around the centre. The way our therapy ponies excel in their jobs is awe-inspiring. I feel we just wash, prepare and drive them to the venues, then they take over and work their magic. They truely are amazing.![]()
#therapyponiesarethebest