This past Saturday I started volunteering at a place called Pony Power of New Jersey. It's a facility that provides therapy horseback riding to people of all ages with mental and/or physical disabilities. My mother and I volunteered at a place in Syracuse doing the same thing before I moved so I wanted to get back into it here in NJ. I have ridden horses most of my life and worked at my aunt's saddlebred/hackney pony breeding/boarding/lesson barn for years until she sold it. The horse knowledge is desperately needed at these facilities!
I also have a niece that was recently diagnosed with cerebal palsy and I would love to get her involved in this program when she is a little older.
Anyway, I took some pictures to share...I obviously didn't take any of the clients because of privacy issues but I did get some of the horses and the dogs on the farm. Let me see if I can get them posted, I'm having a little trouble....
This is Sancho, one of the horses used in the program. he was the one I worked with. Really nice horse, BIG...
This is Zeus I think...He was also used in the program. While I was ther one of the volunteers put him in the wrong pasture and a fight broke out between him and the next horse I'll post. Rebar.
Rebar...
I'll put some more in the next post....
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