Horses are deeply emotional beings and have been shown to be able to help adults and children heal from a variety of psychological and physical conditions. 1 For this and other reasons, I was very ...

Victoria Nodiff-Netanel’s miniature horses offer everything from hospital visits to therapy In 2008, Victoria Nodiff-Netanel founded Mini Therapy Horses with her miniature horse, Pearl The nonprofit, ...

Every year, snakebites kill tens of thousands of people worldwide. The reason many survive is antivenom and horses play a central role in making it. By carefully exposing horses to small amounts of ...

New research shows that horses can be just as meaningful objects of affection for humans as other pets or close human beings. The way people get attached to their horse can now also be reliably ...

It is in the epilogue of his latest book that equine geneticist Ludovic Orlando delivers one of his biggest take-home messages: “[T]he horse,” he writes, “remains what it has been for almost our ...