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Nursing Home Turned To A Giant Horse To Bring A Smile To Their Seniors' Lips - It Worked

<div><p>A Reddit user who works at a nursing home captured a special surprise for residents there: a visit from a giant Clydesdale horse.</p><p>User Mrpazman uploaded an adorable photo of a resident meeting the humongous horse. The smile on her face is contagious as it's clear the horse was spreading good cheer.</p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/clydesdale-horse.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/clydesdale-horse_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w" sizes="89vw" title="Horse" alt="Horse" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite>Reddit</cite></figcaption></figure></div><p>I'd hate to be the person who had to clean up after it though.</p><p>The post has had thousands of up votes (a harder to earn form of a "like") with many people commenting their admiration for the idea.</p><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p>Clydesdales grow on average to about 6 feet tall and weight hundreds of pounds. The largest ever recorded was a massive 10 ft tall horse.</p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/biggesthorse.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/biggesthorse_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w" sizes="89vw" title="Huge Horse" alt="Huge Horse" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite>Barry Bland</cite></figcaption></figure></div><p>I wonder if the nursing home would have been so keen to accept a visit from that one?</p><p>From the reaction to the Reddit post it seems that more unusual visits might be in store. It'd be a great way to bring smiles to our aging population.</p></div>

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