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Hope Meadows helps youths address mental health issues with horse therapy. The program is based in Granger Township. 'Therapy dogs on steroids': Hope Meadows helps at-risk youth through horse therapy
Playing with your dog may not just be good for your pet — it could also benefit your emotional health, according to a new study. - Goodboy Picture Company/E+/Getty Images
The evolution of the horse, a mammal of the family Equidae, occurred over a geologic time scale of 50 million years, transforming the small, dog-sized, [1] forest-dwelling Eohippus into the modern horse. Paleozoologists have been able to piece together a more complete outline of the evolutionary lineage of the modern horse than of any other animal.
Image credits: danngree People just seem to love dogs, and it’s estimated that over 65 million American households own one.It’s not just the fact that they look cute, but these pooches also ...
Animal-assisted therapy is an alternative or complementary type of therapy that includes the use of animals in a treatment. [4] [5] It falls under the realm of animal-assisted intervention, which encompasses any intervention in the studio that includes an animal in a therapeutic context such as emotional support animals, service animals trained to assist with daily activities, and animal ...
Vintage Breyer horses, c. 1972. Breyer Animal Creations (commonly referred to as simply Breyer) is primarily a manufacturer of model horses.Founded in 1950, the company, now a division of Reeves International, Inc, [1] specializes in model horses made from cellulose acetate, a form of plastic, and produces other animal models from the same material as well.
The physiotherapist gave directives to the horse handler as to the gait, tempo, cadence, and direction for the horse to perform. The first standardized hippotherapy curriculum would be formulated in the late 1980s by a group of Canadian and American therapists who travelled to Germany to learn about hippotherapy and would bring the new ...
A 2022 study found that veterans and first responders who had a service dog experienced fewer PTSD symptoms than those without one — though having a dog as a pet was less effective.