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                of the High Country
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Natalie is our resident mental health therapist for horses and any other animal (including humans) that needs help finding themselves. A paint and shire cross, Natalie was brought here as a PMU mare, traveling from her first and only home, a PMU farm in North Dakota. She was covered in lice and had a terrible upper respiratory infection. After two months in quarantine and having been completely shaved (including her mane), Natalie arrived at the farm. She learned to carry a rider using natural horsemanship techniques and was ridden for about a year. But due to back problems Natalie is no longer ridden. That’s no problem because she has always been a busy girl nurturing and steadying all the new arrivals. When we brought our new young haflinger geldings to the farm she took them under her wing and taught them respect. When she was put with a lonely, frightened appaloosa she helped her find a calm no one had seen in the horse. She hugged my mother, who was dying of cancer every time my mother came out to the barn. Natalie is the horse you see on our home page and our logo and she is in all of our hearts.