In mind: focus on mental health. In the palliative care centre at Calais Hospital in northern France, Marion, 24, who has metastatic cancer, cuddles her seven-year-old son, Ethan, as Peyo nuzzles them both. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. At the hospital Peyo tells his trainer which room he wants to enter next by stopping or raising his leg. Peyo is 15 and seems able to detect when humans have cancers and tumours.
He stayed nearly two hours here, watching over a dying woman. Hassen Bouchakour prepares Peyo for a new day at Calais Hospital. For a long time the pair were known for taking part in equestrian shows. But Peyo was constantly looking for human contact. After shows, he would pick out people in the crowd, approach them and choose to stay next to them.
Bouchakour began to suspect Peyo was choosing people who were weakened morally, physically or psychologically. In Calais Hospital, Marion pats Peyo while the medical team help her with her pain relief for metastatic cancer. Peyo and Bouchakour are her allies, she says, and they come to see her almost every day. Isaac, nine, is proud to show off his new friend, Peyo, to his mother who is just coming out of surgery.
Peyo licks the hands of year-old Roger who has just returned for the day to the palliative care unit for a blood transfusion. In the parking garage at Calais Hospital, Peyo and Bouchakour accompany Roger to the ambulance that will take him home after his treatment. Peyo guards the door of a patient while Bouchakour talks to the medical team. Bouchakour is always very careful with hygiene and Peyo is washed and disinfected before and after hospital visits.
It takes two hours to get the horse ready. Peyo and Hassen visit their friend Robert, a former horse rider who has terminal cancer and who is receiving pain relief in hospital. The legs of Peyo, Bouchakour and Robert, the patient they are visiting. It took me a while to accept it. It put an end to my successful career as a sportsman, and as a showman.
