Meet the Minis

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Love Bug

Miniature Therapy Horse
 

This sweet miniature is gentle, sensitive, and incredibly intelligent. Love Bug has been diligently trained and continues her training and development with her human family daily.

Love Bug is comfortable around humans of all ages and abilities. She remains calm and focused around large crowds, loud noises, wheelchairs, walkers, cars, and other animals.

You can now call her Deputy Love Bug! Love Bug is honored to serve alongside the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office as an honorary deputy in their Mounted Patrol Unit.

Fun Facts

  • Birthday: May 4, 2017

  • coat Color: sorrel pinto

  • sex: mare

  • Markings: star, snip, front and left rear white legs, right rear sock

  • Favorite snack: baby carrots

  • “Love Bug” is actually this miniature’s barn name. Her full name is “Black Ridge Baileys Irish Cream”

  • [Hint] A barn name is the name humans use to refer to their horses. Their full names are often much longer

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Happy Times

miniature therapy horse

Happy Times is the newest addition to the McNicholas Miniatures family! She’s brought us joy every minute she’s been at the farm and her and Love Bug are already best buddies.

She is a snuggly, loving, intuitive horse and she loves her humans and her animal friends. Believe it or no she is actually smaller than Love Bug, but with her fluffy coat in the winter it’s hard to tell sometimes. She has been thoroughly trained and receives continued training daily with the McNicholas Miniatures Team.

Fun Facts

  • “Happy times” is her barn name, her full name is “happy times midnight velvet

  • the full name of a horse if often times part of the father horse and part of the mother horses’ names combined to make one longer name

  • birthday: june 15, 2015

  • coat color: black pinto

  • sex: mare

  • markings: left front sock, right front and rear stockings, left rear white leg

  • favorite snack: whatever love bug is eating

 
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Where can Love Bug and Happy Times Visit?

Hospitals | Retirement Communities | Schools | Nursing Care Facilities | Libraries | Veteran Facilities | Promotional Events | Others in Need

Don’t see your facility or program listed? Let us know! We’d love to visit, please contact us HERE.

 

Training + Past Experience

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Both Love Bug and Happy Times undergo continued and ongoing training in addition to their initial training. They work with their handlers in various situations and locations to ensure that they are prepared to meet new friends of all ability levels in any setting that is required of them. This preparation includes:

  • Monthly training exercises with the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office working with officers, horses, and dogs for desensitization and reaction work. Training for chaotic, dangerous, loud, and crowded events and interactions.

  • Detailed logs are kept of past visits and their conditions.

  • Continual training at McNicholas Family Farm with their human handlers to maintain skills necessary for training interactions.

 
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Minis Need Therapy Too!

Love Bug and Happy Times receive regular grooming as well as supplemental therapies such as Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy, provided by High Tide Pulse Therapy. This helps keep the horses healthy, safe and ready to provide therapy of their own!