According to news, a British news agency, owner Sarah Woodland, 42, received two little Shetland ponies in the summer of 2022 from a friend. According to the site, Poppy, 16, and Tinks, 17, are only 30 inches tall and love to be fussed over.
Before choosing to bring the animals to a nearby assisted living facility, Woodland began providing the couple with private one-on-one enrichment sessions in an effort to foster connections among the residents and improve their mental health.
Woodland operates Oxfordshire’s Dinky Ponies.
It’s the speaking and the touching. Seeing and engaging with the ponies provides a means of communication for those who might struggle with it.
It makes people move and is almost like a kind of love.”
Prior to starting this business, she spent years raising her two children, who are now 10 and 15, with her 50-year-old former military veteran husband Nick in London.
