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Airport seeks to eliminate stress with therapy horses
2017-05-14
If there's two things we know for sure, it's that traveling can be extremely stressful and adorable little animals brighten people's days.

The Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport also realizes this, so they've enlisted the help of Seven Oaks Farm -- a non-profit organization in southwest Ohio-- to bring miniature therapy horses to the airport to cheer up travelers.

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Twice a month a few of the farm's 34 horses make their way to the airport to connect with children and relieve the airport stresses of adults.

"It's just to ease anxiety levels, put smiles on faces. Clearly that's working," the airport's senior manager of customer relations, Wendi Orlando, told NPR. "When you look at the passengers walking by, it just never gets old. They love seeing the horses."
Posted by:Besoeker

#1  That's my airport. I wonder why Mr. Wife hasn't mentioned seeing this? It's true he is allergic to horses, or more likely the hay they are forced to wallow in, but even so.

On the other hand, twice a month kind of limits the odds that he'll intersect with their presence, given he isn't travelling by air as often as he used to. Twice a month also limits how much destressing the adorable little beasts can provide. To achieve the effect the airport claims to want, they would have needed to calculate the most stressful time of day/week/month/year, and make sure the horses were available on those days at those times. And had they done the work, they would have trumpeted it.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-05-14 11:09  

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