Stressed at the airport? Now you can play with mini horses

Sunday, May 14, 2017
CINCINNATI, Ohio (KTRK) -- Airline passengers have to deal with a lot these days; getting bumped from flights, losing luggage, and scorpions on top of the general anxiety that nervous flyers always feel.

Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport has a solution to flight anxiety, miniature horse therapy.
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34 therapy horses at Seven Oaks Farm in southwest Ohio, visit the airport twice a month.

More than 30 airports across the country now have therapy dogs. San Francisco has a therapy pig. San Jose, Calif., began a dog program after the Sept. 11 attacks and now has 21 therapy dogs and a therapy cat.

The animals don't get spooked. They have had hundreds of hours of airport training so they are used to having luggage and people swarming around them.
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Some passengers enjoy the animals so much that they call the airport to schedule flights around their visits. Visits to nursing homes and schools are also a regular part of the horses' schedule.

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