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 have had quite a few new followers recently to Pixie and Pickles Therapy Ponies and we welcome you all and hope you enjoy following our ponies as they work and visit people for a close up and personal cuddle experience. ![]()
We have 8 adorable therapy ponies, some are trained and very experienced at their roles and some are in training. We take their education slowly and they work alongside the experienced ponies learning the best behaviour from them.![]()
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We visit many places including care homes, hospices, schools, clubs, hospitals, work places and we also really enjoy participating in presentations which allows us the opportunity to not only demonstrate how amazing our ponies are but also explain the incredible journey they have undertaken to become a fully trained therapy pony.![]()
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Charlie and Arthur headed to the wards at The Lister Hospital to cheer up the patients and staff.![]()
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The ponies are excited and happy to be let into the longer grass for a few hours grazing this morning. ![]()
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Pickles and Arthur going from their lorry and back to relax in the fields with the other therapy ponies after visiting Woodfield school in Hemel Hempstead today. These two adorable ponies were meant to be helping the children with their lessons, but not a lot of work got done with two cute ponies distracting the teachers and children!! 😂![]()
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