cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/onion/p/1402413/just-3-minutes-with-miniature-horses-and-donkeys-improved-teens-mood
Just 3 Minutes with Miniature Horses and Donkeys Improved Teens’ Mood
https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/just-three-minutes-miniature-horses-and-donkeys-improved-teens-mood
7 Comments
kbal@fedia.io · 29 pts · 7d
I question the design of this study. It seems that there was no control group with full-sized horses and donkeys.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 23 pts · 7d
Or miniature teenagers.
peacepath@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 6d
It seems the point of the study is on the relationship between teens and animals. Not to demonstrate that this specific animals were doing it better than others. Or did I get it wrong?
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 7d
I think it would improve my mood too.
ThunderComplex@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 7d
Can’t be sad when there’s lil Sebastian
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 6d
I took my kid to a school event, and there was a petting zoo that had some minuature horses among other things. One of the kindergarten aged kids pointed at the smallest horse and proclamed it to be a "Lowercase Horse".
village604@adultswim.fan · 1 pts · 6d
It would just make me sad, like seeing a pug that's been inbred so much that its existence is suffering.
Breeding any animal to have dwarfism is unethical, no matter what the breeders claim.