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.
We had a great visit (as we always do) to Melbourn Springs Care Home in Royston. It is wonderful to see the love and affection our ponies receive from everyone they meet, and we really appreciate this care home and others for allowing us to bring our trainee therapy ponies to practice and experience working indoors.
Romeo ❤️❤️❤️![]()
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Is one of our smaller therapy ponies. He is SO handsome with a MASSIVE personality. He works in all areas of the therapy work we do, and specialises in working with people suffering with mental health issues. ![]()
Romeo is fiercely independent and insists on doing things his way. He has taught us to work with his quirky ways rather than try and change him.![]()
He is very loving and enjoys scratches and one to one attention from our staff. ![]()
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