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Therapy horses help college students, ailing children de-stress
Chicago Sun Times ^ | Dec. 18, 2018 | Jenniffer Weigel

Posted on 12/22/2018 4:19:24 PM PST by bgill

On a recent visit to Northwestern University, dozens of students stood patiently waiting as if a celebrity were signing autographs. At the front of the line, were the stars of the show: Hope and Winnie – two miniature therapy horses looking to be hugged so they could help the students de-stress from exams... This is the fourth year miniature therapy horses have made their way to the Northwestern campus during exams thanks to Mane in Heaven, a non-profit organization that provides therapy horses to people in need. Founded in 2012 and based in Barrington, President Dina Ewing Morgan said the organization has seven therapy horses that travel to area hospitals, social service agencies and even universities. “When we first started doing this for college kids, we wondered ‘Will it even have an effect?'” said Ewing Morgan, who is also a nurse. “We do this with special needs kids and hospital kids, and seniors, but we didn’t know if it would actually work on college kids and they love it.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: college; destress; horses
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To: bgill

These days there are very few real exams at the end of the semester. The STEM courses have exams. In other courses the kids have to write a paper. ( yes, many of them download it from the internet)


41 posted on 12/22/2018 7:27:11 PM PST by ladyjane
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Just wait until one of those comfort horses steps on your foot!


42 posted on 12/22/2018 8:00:15 PM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: EEGator

Dopinder is my hero.

CC


43 posted on 12/22/2018 8:25:10 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: bgill
Well, they don't let them go have a beer to de-stress.
44 posted on 12/22/2018 8:27:32 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.)
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To: bgill; 100American; al baby; Albion Wilde; Allegra; BufordP; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; ...
Are the final exams at Northwestern anything like those fiendish, diabolical puzzles in the Saw movies? If they aren't, the students shouldn't need therapy horses.

We didn't have therapy ANYTHING for exams when I went to college in the 1980s.

DANG!

45 posted on 12/22/2018 8:51:31 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Ya lyublyu kovfefe!)
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To: Cold Heart

Kitten farts are enough to asphyxiate a grown man.


46 posted on 12/22/2018 9:59:25 PM PST by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.r)
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47 posted on 12/23/2018 4:25:02 AM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Hate to see all the legal waivers which have to be signed and notarized ...

A horse steps on somebody’s foor and a stampede of lawyers descends


48 posted on 12/24/2018 8:16:19 AM PST by elbook
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To: elbook

All those hitching post’s will make egress difficult.


49 posted on 12/24/2018 10:14:28 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is what I read in the papers.)
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