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🐴Kataluna Horse Rescue
Registered 501(c)3 nonprofit | WA
Rescuing, rehabilitating & restoring trust and love in neglected horses & donkeys in the auction pipeline. This page was created to share our horses life changing journeys through rescue of slaughter bound horses. As well as embark on the amazing opportunities to allow humans be the student, and learn from the horses point of view.

12/02/2025

WE DID IT❤️❤️❤️

Happy Giving Tuesday! A day to celebrate support and love for all the wonderful non profits who work day in and day out all year long, to give back to those who need that extra helping hand. What better way to celebrate than with an exciting update that Ringo got his stitches removed and is on his final steps to recovery! (He’s rocking the race horse look now)🐎

…AND… AS OF TODAY WE REACHED OUR $27,000 FUNDRAISING GOAL!!! Which means all the initial intake expenses for our most recent rescue group, to help us fund their bail fee, transport, and all their initial vet, farrier, and quarantine expenses ARE COVERED!

Thank you, thank you THANK YOU truly to each and every one of you who helped support this group and make this happen! We cannot support these animals and change their lives for the better without you so the fact that we reached this by our goal date is just absolutely incredible🙏😭❤️ I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend and thank you for helping us give these most special souls a life of love they truly deserve!

12/01/2025

Available Adoptable Horses❤️🐴

Rado & Angus ridable project geldings!

Rado is a gorgeous buckskin 16 year old Kiger Quarter Horse Cross gelding standing around 15.2hh. This guy is big and stout and knows his size! He is sound, up to date on all his veterinary & farrier care, and looking for a partner who is ready to give him a job! Rado loves to work, and needs a confident experienced rider who can keep his brain active. He is respectful of fencing and other members of the herd but he’s got that big toddler personality and loves to test the waters. He was started in his early days as a trail gelding & has a good walk trot canter but spent the last few several on pasture so is building up his strength & mindset. He’s a very “bro” type kinda boy😉

Angus is a handsome liver chestnut 20 year old Morgan Cross standing around 15hh. Angus came to us with severe string halt which he had a very successful surgery on and now you can’t even tell! He is sound with a beautiful wall trot and canter but same as Rado is working his way back up to more muscle & balance. We believe Angus would do better in an arena setting but with time and training could be a good trail horse. He has been an angel through all of his time here and recovery process but has recently developed some herd boundness to mares while on his stal rest we are helping him work through. Angus is also up to date on all his vet & farrier care. He has great potential for youth gaming or something more active!

Both boys will be an *amazing* partners for someone looking to spend the time with them! Small adoption carrots & please feel free to send us a message with any questions or to see more picurees videos!

11/30/2025

I’m sorry for the radio silence❤️‍🩹 I know many of you have been eagerly waiting for updates on the fundraisers and new horses, Ringo and his eye, the donkeys and their health, Henry & Hudson settling into their pasture life, and others, everything is going well and everyone is on the road to recovery thank goodness. But these last seventy two hours, knowing the rest of the herd is okay, my focus has been elsewhere.

I don’t share a whole lot on here about my personal horses, as this page focuses mainly on the rescues. However, these last few days have been heart wrenching and a roller coaster of emotions with one of my heart horses Harley. My baby who is now almost seven that I’ve had since she was five months old. We’ve had so many ups and downs over the last three years together where I really thought we hit a breaking point and dead end with one another, but we didn’t give up, we kept trying and kept fighting together to figure each other out, and we did! Our connection and communication has felt stronger even just in these last couple months than it has in years which has been so filling for the heart and soul.

Well, Friday morning, there was a freak accident in the pasture that is just sometimes one of those things that is completely unavoidable with horses no matter how much you bubble wrap them. And I watched what I thought I was going to be witnessing as Harley’s last day. She immediately went from playful and spirited to unable to walk on her left hind, it swelled was bleeding, and she was shaking from the pain. My worst fear was a break.

I waited with so much anxiety already preparing myself for the grief process knowing the lifetime we were supposed to have together might be ending right here and now. Our vet got here as soon as she could and *thank goodness* her X-rays were clean and there were no broken bones. Im sure she has bone bruising, possibly soft tissue or tendon damage, but we’ve been treating and medicating pain management to the best our ability. We will re check her on Tuesday but my heart is just breaking seeing her hurting like this💔

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Come with me to give all our rescues their special Thanksgiving dinner🧡 we are all so grateful for each and every one of you making this possible so all of this amazing animals each get to go to bed with happy full bellies tonight!

11/26/2025

My favorite part is that the ball shaking continues to get more and more aggressive the longer you watch😂 Rado in all his glory!

11/26/2025

WE ARE SO CLOSE!

I know it’s a little early, but our most recent fundraiser to help cover the initial intake expenses of our recent rescue group Ringo, Henry, Hudson, Sampson, Ophelia, Cosmo, Atlas, Astro, and Dipper, is SO CLOSE to being complete! We had some *amazing* donors offer to help take a few more steps towards our goal over the weekend, but we have $3224 LEFT TO RAISE! Originally I was hoping to reach the goal by Thanksgiving, but we’ve decided to extend it to Giving Tuesday which is *one week from today* as we felt that might help!❤️‍🩹

Please consider helping us continue to help horses in need this year, so we can reach our goal to ensure the safety and best possible care for these animals! I know we can do this but we can’t do it without your help❤️ we are a 501(c)3 Non Profit so every donation is tax deductible as well!

TO DONATE:
-DonorBox (for Apple Pay & Card payment): http://DONORBOX.ORG/DONATE-TODAY-257
-Zelle: [email protected]
-Venmo: @ Katalunahorserescue_ (UNDER CHARITIES)
-PayPal: @ Kataluna Horse Rescue (UNDER CHARITIES)

THANK YOU❤️

11/25/2025

Imagine, just for a moment. He is you.

Think, if your whole world had been turned upside down overnight. Everything familiar is gone. The sounds, the faces, the routines that once anchored you have vanished and you don’t know what comes next.
Now imagine, all of that, except only that you’ve been here before—crowded sale pens, trader trailers, fear echoing off metal walls. An endless cycle that tells you not to trust, not to hope, and not to believe you matter.

But this time, someone saw you. Someone chose not to give up on you.

These animals aren’t just a body pulled from a pipeline. He is a soul who has endured defeat. She is a baby who suffered abandonment. They both have faced uncertainty too many times. But now, with patience and compassion, he finally has a chance to rediscover safety, she can learn what it means to feel softness, and they can live a life where they are no longer disposable.

Imagine, just for a moment, she is you. And imagine how much her story changes when someone finally says, “You’re safe now.”

11/24/2025

Some souls give their whole lives to humans without ever asking for anything in return.
This old mule is one of them.

For years, he worked.
He carried the weight he was given, went where he was pointed, and said “okay” every time.
Even when his body ached,
Even when the job was too heavy,
Even when it took every ounce of strength just to take the next step.

He didn’t question.
He didn’t complain.
He just gave.

But when the years finally caught up,
when age bent his back,
when his joints stiffened,
when he needed the same care and compassion he had spent his entire life offering,
his loyalty wasn’t returned.

Instead of comfort, he was cast aside.
Sold off to a kill buyer with a failing body,
quietly waiting to walk onto that trailer and disappear forever.

This is the fate of far too many like him.
The workers, the faithful ones, the “good” ones who never once said no.

But this time, his story didn’t end there.
Because we stepped in.
We saw the worth still shining in his tired eyes,
the gentle heart that never stopped trying,
the life that still matters.

He is safe now.
He is finally loved.
And for the first time in his long, hard life, he will get to rest. Not because he earned it, (because he earned it long ago), but because he deserves it. Every animal does.

Your days of being forgotten are over sweet old man.

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11/21/2025

Sampson❤️

Our severely underweight senior gelding who we took in, in honor of the emaciated bonded pair Chance and Shadow who never got the opportunity to make it home to Kataluna. Sampson was found abandoned at a sale yard local to where our long distance hauler is based. When he first met him at the yard, he shared with me that Sampson was even more underweight then to where he was now and felt so bad someone had just left him there, so took him in and started his rehab. With Sampson being such a big rehab case, our hauler asked us if we wanted to step in and help, so of course without hesitation I said bring him on over.

Sampson is settling in to the routine well here, but these emaciation cases can be so so fragile so we are doing our best to monitor him closely and helping him take these first few steps into his new life and the depth and happiness that will come with it. I can’t wait until his “Day one” turns into his “Can you believe this was Sampson before?”

11/20/2025

Ringo’s enucleation went *so* well, honestly as well as it could have gone which is always the best news!

Once the eye was removed we were able to get a closer look as to what happened, this was a serious puncture wound that was unfixable, and likely caused this sweet guy unimaginable pain as it grew infection, to then be sold off to a kill buyer.

Thanks to our incredible veterinarian who worked carefully and efficiently to ensure his procedure was handled with the best care, and our team who was there to support throughout the process, you can already tell Ringo is feeling SO much better, despite the healing journey he is just starting. He just has such a big heart to him too, it hurts knowing he was tossed aside when he became someone else’s “burden”. I am just so glad he is here and finally getting the care he needs.

11/19/2025

The FREEDOM JUMPS!!

This is without a doubt, the best part of every auction weekend, is helping them step off that trailer into the first part of what will be their new life. A new life where they never have to worry about missing another meal, not knowing what it’s like to have a family of their own, and never wondering why someone didn’t choose them.

They went from numbers to names. Our big Belgian, Henry, and his buddy Hudson the mule. Our surprise gelding Sampson who was actually rescued by our hauler and ended up on our trailer in honor of the emaciated bonded pair Chance & Shadow. The gelding with the horrifically painful eye that was caused by someone and then cast aside, Rango. Our little orphan baby, Ophelia. And the four sick donkeys, Cosmo, Dipper, Astro, and Atlas. Eleven lives that may not have all made it to Kataluna, but made it home.

Thank you 📸 4Strides Photography for capturing such special moments!

11/17/2025

They made it😭❤️‍🩹

After a long week of ups and downs, our herd made it here safely. I am so so so beyond grateful for our incredible hauler who has put just as much time, effort, and love into these horses as we have. They wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for him and for that I am eternally grateful❤️

We hit the ground running with our vet & team as soon as they arrived. Good news and not so good. The orphan foal is doing well all considering, she’s eating drinking and just so so sweet despite where people had left her. The donkeys are all sick, but we’ve got them on antibiotics and monitoring them closely. The gelding with the bad eye we were hoping to be able to save that eye by some miracle, but upon further evaluation it appears to be a major puncture wound that has just left a mess of the eye that is still in there. Poor guy is probably so painful and was sold to a kill buyer that way. His eye will need to be removed.

The Belgian and the mule have bonded quite a bit on the trip together. Once they settled in, they have just been so kind and enjoying lots of scratches and attention. The Belgian overall checked out well, however his buddy the mule, we were gutted to learn his poor body is riddled with arthritis. This arthritis is so bad to the point he can’t bend his head down to the graze or turn left or right. He will be here on hospice while we keep him on heavy pain medication for the next few days.

Lastly, the little red dun you see at the end of this video. Our little surprise gelding. Many of you saw my recent post of our bonded emaciated pair who sadly weren’t strong enough to make it on this trip. Well, this little gelding was found by my hauler, in worse condition than those two, abandoned at an auction yard a couple week back, basically where he was left to die. Our hauler took him under his wing. As you can see he needs quite a bit of rehab being at least a good 250lbs underweight to where every bone is protruding. After we lost our two, he asked me if we would be open to taking this guys in, so of course my response was bring him on up❤️

Everyone is on 24/7 monitoring as they settle in to this new life of love❤️

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Our Story- Living through Liberty

This page was created to share the amazing opportunities that allow humans be the student and horses to be the teacher, and for us to learn from their point of view.

I grew up working with rescue horses using the “typical” type of horsemanship training, until when I was twelve years old one horse in particular came into my life and turned all that around. These methods that I always considered to be the only way of working with horses, were being shut down left and right. This horse was scared, frightened of humans and not ready to trust. Others had tried their methods on her, some helped, some did not, but I was at a loss. Honestly, I was scared. I had made all the choices I thought I knew how, until I soon came upon this idea of letting the horse choose, and letting the horse be completely FREE rather than forcing her to engage. I will admit, I was hesitant. I was scared if I took off the ropes, she would run, that if I gave her the choice, she would choose no. But that is the reality we had to face. Five years later, by using this method of FREEDOM, we developed a trust, a team, and most importantly a friendship. My ways of working with horses changed forever.

Since then, I have come across so many amazing horses through fostering, adoption from feed lots, etc. I am currently working in Washington to grow and exploit this “training” technique to share with the world of equine. We appreciate everyone who comes through to our page and hope to inspire you and your four legged friend to try something new in honor of them!

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