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.
Sarah and Sean had coffee and carrots with the ponies to tell them about the official launch of the Pixie and Pickles Therapy Ponies TikTok platform 😁![]()
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So proud of how far all these ponies have come and what they have managed to achieve.![]()
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Our Therapy Ponies pricked their ears up this week as they have heard not ONE, but TWO pieces of Exciting news!!![]()
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The 1st piece of Exciting news is that Pixie and Pickles Therapy Ponies are now OFFICIALLY on TikTok. If you would like to follow the ponies on TikTok, please go to the link below. ![]()
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The 2nd piece of Exciting news will be announced on Monday 6th July. Let's hope the ponies can keep 'Mum' u#therapyponiesarethebestoniesarethebest
A fun video from a few years ago of Romeo and Pickles playing in the fields, before our other ponies joined the Pixie and Pickles Therapy Team. The fields look so empty with only 2 ponies... Romeo's little legs are going so fast as he tries to keep up with Pickles. Hope you all enjoy watchin#therapyponiesarethebestebest
How our therapy pony visits started.....![]()
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A wonderful lady called Dannii let us have ownership of her 2 young 'fur babies' called Pixie and Pickles. They came to our yard to be friends for my older horse (Bessie).![]()
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All 3 became great friends and Pixie and Pickles started doing a few care home therapy visits with great success. ![]()
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Over the next year Pixie became unwell and after a long stay in hospital she was diagnosed with a condition called 'Grass Sickness'. This is a debilitating and often fatal condition that paralyzes a horses gut and nervous system. Some horses get it, whilst others grazing in the same fields dont. ![]()
After hours of discussions, we had to listen to the vets and take their advice and let Pixie go to sleep. We and Pickles were with her when we said our goodbyes. Heartbroken didn't cover how we all felt and the therapy pony visits ceased.....![]()
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But, we continued to have many requests for Pickles to visit people, so we dubiously started doing the odd visit here and there. Pickles was as popular as ever and worked so hard, so the decision was made to look for another shetland to join her in her therapy work. ![]()
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Along came Romeo.........![]()
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Then as the therapy visits increased we recruited Arthur and Charlie, followed by Bluebell, Oliver, Barney and finally Toby!!![]()
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We decided to continue with the name, 'Pixie and Pickles Therapy Ponies' in memory of Pixie and all the hard work she initially did alongside Pickles to start our successful therapy pony visit#therapyponiesarethebestjoy today.![]()
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