Patients pet horse, visits him in hospital.
By jenni7202
@jenni7202 (1598)
United States
March 24, 2008 2:11pm CST
I just so happened to be listening to the radio this morning on the way home from work, and heard the hosts talking about a new story that has turned up in our local news.
A man decided he wanted to make his ailing friend happy who was admitted into their local hospital, so he decided to bring his pet horse in to cheer him up. He managed to get through the doors, onto the elevator and up to the third floor before security stopped them.
I thought this was hilarious. I've heard of your dogs and cats being able to visit you in the hospital, but never a horse! I wonder though, how he managed to get past that many people before getting stopped. Also, the horse didn't freak out from going up on an elevator?
This is definitly amoungst the strangest stories I've heard in news.
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3 responses
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
24 Mar 08
How fun!
I know minis have been used for therapy like that, but I don't think I could have managed to get one of my full-sized quarters horses or paints past all those people!
@jenni7202 (1598)
• United States
24 Mar 08
Oh you have horses?! That's great. I love them. I used to live next door to a family that owned horses. I used to go and pet and feed them when I would go on my daily walk. It was a great experience.
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
24 Mar 08
I don't anymore, but I did have six of them, to include a mare that we bred. We got a beautiful little blue eyed paint colt!
(That was two years ago)
@sunkissed (4330)
• United States
25 Jul 08
WoW, it must have been a miniture horse. I can not believe that they got that horse all the way up to the third floor before anyone saw it..I do know that pets are great therapy and people do get attached to them, so I can understand why this man would want to see the horse, but to bring it into a hospital?
@desertdarlene (8911)
• United States
24 Mar 08
I heard that, too. I also wonder at the horse going up in the elevator with no problem. Most people I know can't even get the horse to go into a trailer! I wonder if it was a miniature horse or something like that. I think we had a local story here about a miniature horse that visits hospitals much like those dogs that do the same thing. I would have loved to see a horse when I was in the hospital, except that I'm allergic.
