Miniature horse

The WHO is now warning the response is running short of health workers as case counts accelerate.

Okay, that's a really heavy story, so that's where the miniature horses come in right now.

So researchers at UC Davis found that three minutes with miniature horses and donkeys, let's not leave them out, improved mood in adolescents.

In a study of 61 teens, nervousness, sadness, and loneliness all declined after the interaction.

The animals' own behavior also appeared to influence how much the participants improved, which means even miniature horses apparently have bedside manner.

So we are gonna send those horses and donkeys to the emergency room or, you know, when kids are watching sports games and trying to bet on the Jets, which, uh, I'm a huge fan of, and it's never a good thing.

And that wraps up this edition of Medlines.

And now the part where I learn that joining Medlines apparently also comes with legal copy.

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Come on now.

Big animal.

But miniature horses, like, don't they come up to, like, your waist?

They can weigh up to 350 pounds.

Okay, but.

that they were using, what is the doctor's name? Rebecca Calise Rodriguez, an associate professor of neurobiology, physiology, and behavior at UC Davis out in California.

So they got a bunch of teenagers together.

And they said, spend three minutes petting or scratching these miniature horses or donkeys.

And it totally chilled them out.

Cheryl Huck Smith joining us from Laramie County, Wyoming.

And Hannah, I have no idea where we were at because we got lost during the break in Cowboy Joe and Miniature Pony, Shetland Ponies.

I'm sorry.

I just had to mention it.

That thing was wild.

Judy Hinchey, a woman in Newton, is fighting to keep her miniature horse, Clover.

This pisses me off.

These Newton people.

So they don't want her to have her miniature.

Who doesn't want a miniature horse in the neighborhood?

Well, so they are complaining about smell.

Okay.

I think it was Dover School District.

They had like a meeting about making miniature horses part of service animals for the

school.

I just thought that