Guide pony helps blind Muslim woman go to US college
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LANSING — Mona Ramouni was taking notes with a Braille device when her guide pony Cali joined the class discussion with a sudden snort.
“What do you think Cali?” professor Shelley Smithson said with a laugh, and then steered the conversation back to theories of counseling and psychotherapy.
Cali is just one of a handful of miniature horses in the United States known to be used as guide animals for the blind and is likely the first pony to attend college.
The click of her hooves in the halls of Michigan State University is still turning heads three months after Ramouni and Cali moved to Lansing for graduate school.
Shocked students stare, shake their heads, pull out their cell phone cameras and some can’t help asking “is that a horse?”
“Usually I’m good about it because you have to educate people,” Ramouni said. “Sometimes I’ll say, no, it’s a really cool toy.”.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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