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Mini Therapy Horse Playing The Piano refers to a viral video of a "mini therapy horse" named Black Pearl playing the piano with her snout to wake up a young hospitalized child from anesthesia. The video was originally posted by the Instagram page @minitherapyhorses, where Victoria Nodiff-Netanel posts videos of her miniature horses greeting patients and hospital workers across the United States. The video also went viral on Twitter / X in July 2025 after X user @bogwitchbooks tweeted, "Losing it over this therapy horse that vigorously plays the piano to wake kids up from anesthesia."

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On January 19th, 2025, the Instagram^[1] page @minitherapyhorses posted a video showing a small black horse named Black Pearl playing the piano in a children's hospital by rubbing its snout up and down the keys. The video showed the horse's owner holding up the keyboard while a young patient looked on from her hospital bed. The caption on the video read, "Black Pearl loves to wake up kids out of anesthesia with her keyboard 🎹 playing at Shriners for Children Medical Center," and the post gathered over 20 million views and 1 million likes in two days.

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On July 20th, 2025, Twitter^[2] user @bogwitchbooks reposted the video with the caption, "Losing it over this therapy horse that vigorously plays the piano to wake kids up from anesthesia." The post gathered over 14 million views and 300,000 likes in a day.

On July 20th, X^[3] user @Rad_Sherwoodism quoted the video, writing, "Can you imagine being some poor kid pumped full of drugs, waking up to a strange noise, and what you see is a horse, but the wrong size, and it looks like a nurse is trying to feed it a piano?" The post gathered over 3 million views and 90,000 likes in a day.

Redditor /u/Itsforthehouse reposted the video of Black Pearl playing the piano for a hospitalized child coming out of anaesthesia to the subreddit /r/IThinkYouShouldLeave ^[4] on July 20th, gathering over 2,000 upvotes for a post that read, "This one is somber, so it's all right to cry."

Also on July 20th, X^[6] user @frecklefruit reposted the clip of Black Pearl the mini therapy horse, writing, "big crash out imminent" and gathering over 140,000 likes in a day.

big crash out imminent pic.twitter.com/BBFiXvBCkT

— mike (@frecklefruit) July 20, 2025

On July 21st, 2025, X^[5] user @girldrawsghosts quoted the video of Black Pearl the mini therapy horse playing the piano for a hospitalized child coming out of anesthesia, writing, "please don’t bring in the tiny horse that vigorously plays the piano while I’m climbing my way out of an anesthesia blackout, I cannot stress enough how much it would make me think I died on the table." The post gathered over 24,000 likes in a day.

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