Harp therapist soothes anxious horses during bushfire emergency

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A doctor, whose own horse had to be moved to an evacuation centre in the bushfires, made sure she also grabbed her harps, which she's using to calm animals at the centre.

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A woman stands playing Pachelbel's Canon on a harp to a distressed horse, shrouded in bushfire smoke, at a large animal evacuation centre.

It's an unexpected sight amid the rushed activity during the recent bushfire crisis, yet it clearly has a positive effect, calming the anxious animal, and quite possibly soothing anxious owners as well. Carol Booth, from the New South Wales Mid North Coast, is a doctor transitioning into retirement, and a certified therapeutic harp practitioner.

When a bushfire broke out in her local area, Dr Booth and her partner moved horses from their Lorne property, near Johns River, to a safer location at the Wauchope Showground. When one of their horses, Oscar, who is blind, became distressed Dr Booth decided to see if playing one of her harps would calm him."He's blind, he doesn't know where he is, and if a big truck comes by, the noise upsets him. He doesn't know what's going on, and I just thought I will see if the harp settles him down and it worked.

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