Talk about plans going awry…
Man and beast were stopped by security guards only after reaching the third floor, after apparently passing through the lobby unchallenged.
That’s not actually the part of the story that made it interesting to me, this is:
The patient was allowed to see them but it turned out to be the wrong horse.
Can you imagine? You go to all the trouble to take a [tag]horse[/tag] to a [tag]hospital[/tag] and then you take the wrong horse?
I’m all about taking animals to visit people who’re sick (provided they want to be visited by critters, of course). This reminded me of a program where, instead of dogs, they took exotic trained animals to nursing homes to visit with the residents. One of these animals was an adorable miniature horse. Do the therapeutic benefits of animal companionship outweighed the potential psychological damage of walking a very tiny horse past dementia patients? It was a very successful program so it must have been okay, but you still have to wonder…