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Pink t‐shirts that proclaim “My horse is my therapist” are for sale in a wide variety of horse‐sport catalogues. Literature on the healing power of human–nonhuman animal encounters and the practice of a variety of animal‐assisted therapy programs, such as hippotherapy and equine‐facilitated therapy, show dramatic growth over the last 30 years. Less attention is paid to the role that horse–human interactions...