Link: https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/just-three-minutes-miniature-horses-and-donkeys-improved-teens-mood

Study.

I question the design of this study. It seems that there was no control group with full-sized horses and donkeys.

Or miniature teenagers.

I think it would improve my mood too.

Can’t be sad when there’s lil Sebastian

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.

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".

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?