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 Andrew Pierce Show
The Andrew Pierce Show
Podcast
Foxholes Care Home, Hertfordshire. Sept 2021.
Trio of therapy ponies spend the day at a Hertfordshire Care home to provide comfort and joy to bedbound residents...
Peterborough Telegraph write up about our visit to Barchester Longueville Care home, Peterborough. July 2021
Two shetland ponies had made a dream come true for a resident who suddenly became ill and has suffered life changing...