A horse showed compassion and kindness at a nursing home. A large barnyard animal demonstrated a fair amount of love and empathy for a resident at a long-term living facility. Watch the short clip to see the sweet, tear-jerking moment.

Animals are, without a doubt, some of the best creatures you’ll ever encounter on Earth. They are loyal, gentle, dependable to a fault and love unconditionally. A lot of the people you’ll run into aren’t able to do most of those things.

Because of their kind and loving nature, animals often make great companions, especially for lonely people who need a friend. Many hospitals and nursing homes use animals to bring smiles to their patients’ faces. Typically, the animal used to bring about and spread happiness is a dog or a cat, which makes perfect sense given how much those specific animals are around humans.

However, a clip posted on social media shows one nursing facility in Australia used a very different and much bigger animal to bring happiness to residents. The precious video shows Teddy, the horse, gently resting its face on an elderly woman’s shoulder.

It’s clear that if the woman wanted Teddy to stay there for five minutes or five hours, the animal would have been content to do just that. The sweet horse seemed to understand exactly what the woman needed. The kindness, love, compassion and empathy the horse demonstrated in that moment for the elderly woman is touching and moving.

The clip’s description adds that the interaction captured in the 32-second video “brought us to tears.” I’m sure that will do the same to nearly everyone else who views the tender, loving moment between the woman and the horse. How could you not tear up?

Genesis 1:21 “And God created great whales, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.”