Rocking Double H Paso Fino horses, located in the Pacific Northwest, is a Paso Fino Farm and Paso Fino Horse Association Approved Rescue.
Enjoy the peace and solitude aboard the smoothest riding horse in the world! Rocking Double H Paso Fino horses has partnered with Hope Reins Foundation, Horses for Mental Health in the Equine Assisted Psychotherapy program with Paso Finos. Rocking Double H Paso Finos also works with individuals and groups in a clinic setting for modalities and individual instruction. This is a place where horse an
d rider can learn to connect, communicate, and find the path to a lifelong partnership. We at Double Rocking H have spent many years studying the mind of the Paso Fino and how the human can get the most out of the relationship. The Paso Fino is a highly intelligent animal with a high reaction response. As humans, we want that strong bond with our horse, but how do we get it when the old “cowboy way " just doesn’t work? We have experience in and out of the show ring, getting the best gait possible with light collection. Let us help you become a partner with your horse, learn to ask for, not demand, a response. Every horse teaches us something. Where do you want to go, what do you want to do? Come join us, everyday is a new experience.
09/02/2025
PSA: Buyer Beware 😡
Recently it has come to my attention that there is misrepresentation of a horse being sold as GRADE with the wrong age to deceive buyers when seller has the papers and knows exactly how old the mare is. This is a mare we are very familiar with, so don’t be taken by this horse trader. The mare is PFHA REGISTERED AND 20 years old NOT 13 as represented.
She is for an advanced rider. This horse trader has done this deception tactic so many times it is astounding. 🤬
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Rocking Double H Paso Fino horses. A place where horse and rider can learn to connect, communicate, and find the path to a lifelong partnership. We at Double H have spent many years studying the mind of the Paso Fino and how the human can get the most out of the relationship. The Paso Fino is a highly intelligent animal with a high reaction response. As humans, we want that strong bond with our horse, but how do we get it when the “cowboy way” we’ve been taught, just doesn’t work?
We have experience in and out of the show ring, getting the best gait possible with light collection. Let us help you become a partner with your horse, learn to ask for, not demand, a response. We are all still learning. Every horse teaches us something. Where do you want to go, what do you want to do? Come join us, everyday is a new experience.
In 2017, we decided to become involved in Paso Fino Rescue and Adoption. Our mission is to step between the owner/seller of the horse and the auction/kill pen buyer. If a horse owner places a horse for sale on Craigslist or various other sites, at a price under $500, they are asking for the wrong kind of buyer. As responsible owners, it is our duty to protect our horses from harmful circumstances. If the horse is priced “cheap” because it is very old or sick, it should be humanely euthanized, not moved on down the road to be someone else’s responsibility. The very best owners will protect their horses from “cradle to grave”; either keeping the horse for its’ full life, or knowing where the horse is and how it is being cared for, for its’ full life. Unfortunately, that rarely happens. We hope to educate the Paso Fino owner and offer an alternative to selling the horse they have had difficulty placing and are now just wanting the horse gone from their care. Good horses are easy to sell at good prices. Others, considered too quick on their feet, too sensitive or difficult, are hard to place and often end up at a price less than what they are worth for slaughter. In comes the auction buyer, often misrepresenting him or herself saying the horse will be a pasture pet or companion horse and live a good life, and offers less than the slaughter price. The horse is then taken to auction where it may be purchased for the meat price by the slaughter buyer and taken to a kill pen to await a trailer ride to Canada or Mexico and a terrible end no horse deserves. Meanwhile, if the horse is in good shape, has registration papers, and is a highly sought after breed, it will be advertised on the kill sights and held for ransom until the well meaning public puts up the money. Once the ransom is paid, the horse may or may not be fed, watered or cared for. It is to the benefit of the kill buyer to take good care of the horses he knows are going to slaughter as he is paid by the pound. However, the horse he knows the “do gooder rescue people” will fight to save, may starve, be deprived of water, live with dangerous wild horses, contract disease and not have veterinary care; the list goes on and on. Papers are often “lost” because the kill buyer has misrepresented the age or breed of the horse. So, bottom line, the horse nobody wanted to buy from the owner, the horse nobody wanted at the auction, is now worth much more than the meat/kill buyer paid and the price can go up and up depending on how many people are wanting to save the horse. They know nothing about the horse, is it safe, can it be ridden, is it healthy, is it as represented? You never know until you get there to pick up the horse you saw in a video taken 2 or 3 weeks ago. (See Valentina’s story below)
In 2017, we took in three registered Paso Finos on owner surrender. Our goal is to only take horses we can help, horses with a future as good horse citizens. These three will be ridden, retrained as needed, given lots of ground work and plenty of love and attention. When they are adopted out, they will have been trained with their new owners and be ready for their forever homes. Christie and I are Equine Reiki Masters and use Reiki healing energy on all of our horses. Animals who have endured poor living conditions, unhealthy diet, improper maintenance, poor training methods and poor handling are at the highest risk of imbalance. Reiki channels those blockages so the energy paths are open and able to freely maintain good health. We have seen amazing results with our horses.
We are not in the business of “flipping” horses. We will charge only what our expenses have been for feed, veterinary care and shoeing/trimming. Our time and training is a gift to the horse we are happy to give. Our adoption process is very thorough. We require a contract with the new owner stating the horse will not be sold, traded or given away......ever. We will ALWAYS take the horse back if things don’t work out or circumstances change for the new owner. Rocking Double H will remain in contact with the new owner for the life of the horse.
Every horse has a different story. How did they get to the place where the owner felt pressured to “get rid of the horse”? We often find Paso Finos are greatly misunderstood by the owner as being crazy or flighty, hard to handle, hard to catch, more go than whoa. This breed is very sensitive and unless the human understands the breed, misunderstandings often occur. This is NOT a horse for everyone! Our goal is educating the former Quarter Horse owner that comes to us because they want a smooth ride. These horses present a whole new opportunity for learning. We love teaching and are happy to give our time to those truly interested in learning.
Horses up for adoption in 2018:
Dama Elegancia: We are in the process of getting her registered and that will be her registered name. We have done a DNA test and know her lineage. She is buckskin going gray, 9 years old and the sweetest mare we’ve ever had. She has been a trail horse her entire life, never worn shoes or had a bit in her mouth. She’s quick and responsive but at the same time gentle and willing to walk. She’s an “everyone can ride” horse; rare in the Paso Fino breed. She is currently recovering from an injury that occurred before we brought her to live with us. We are hopeful she will be ready for her forever home late summer of 2018.
Santos: He’s a 15 year old registered black Paso Fino gelding. He’s a big boy with excellent feet that never need shoes. Santos has excellent ground manners and is a rock star in the round pen. He knows his stuff on line and off; very responsive and asking “what shall we do now?”. A delightful personality; willing and wanting to please. This beautiful boy joined our family last October and the snow flew early in these parts so we have not ridden him yet. We’ve done lots of ground work, (he already knew it all), and had a saddle on him but no rider yet. We look forward to evaluating him and getting him ready for his forever home. He is reported to be an excellent and fearless trail horse.
Keep checking back. As horses are adopted, new ones will take their place. We can only handle about 3 or 4 a year. It’s a slow and expensive process. Donations are appreciated and a full accounting will be provided. We are NOT a 501 C3 non profit. Those that donate to our cause do so for the love of the horse. All horses deserve a second chance with an owner that has the capacity to love and understand the mind of a Paso Fino. If you would like to donate to our efforts any amount would be appreciated.
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Valentina’s Story:
Why are we so passionate about intervening before the auction buyer gets to the horse? In our one and only experience buying from the kill pen, we helped raise funds to save a horse that had gone to auction and was purchased at the meat price. We had seen a video of her being ridden. She looked healthy and even a little overweight. She gaited nicely and looked easy to ride. According to the ad, she came with papers. Of course, time was short, she would be shipped in 3 or 4 days. Several people stepped up to save her and pay the “ransom” fee asked by the kill buyer. We volunteered to pick her up and quarantine her for 30 days. We spread the word hoping someone in our area would be interested in adopting her when she was ready for her new home. Otherwise, she was to be shipped to a rescue we work with that would hold her until new owners could be found. She would be SAFE! That’s all we cared about at that moment.
When we arrived at the kill pen we were shocked. There were 250 healthy horses waiting for transport to Mexico or Canada; some with foals at their sides. We trudged through deep mud to the pen where our horse was being held with one other sick horse. Our horse was horribly thin, had a runny nose and was so weak she could barely stand. When we led her out, she was so unsteady on her feet we wondered if she could even step up into the trailer. She was in such bad shape we wondered if she could make the three and half hour trailer ride home. Upon examination we discovered her udders were full and she had yellow watery diarrhea. We saw no food in her pen, and if it was on the other side she was too weak to walk over and get it. Her water trough was solid ice as was the ground in her pen. The owner of the kill pen said she wouldn’t eat, denied that she had recently foaled, and said there were no papers and that he never said there were papers. She made it home but it was obvious she was in trouble.
Upon examination our vets told us she was in the end stages of starvation and that her body was septic. The chances of her recovering were slim. We hung fluids because she wouldn’t eat or drink and was obviously dehydrated. After 48 hours of constant care, she was unable to stand and began having seizures. We called the vet and we ended up humanely euthanizing her. She was too far gone to recover. Almost $1200 was spent trying to save a horse that could not be saved. Yes we brought her home, we couldn’t leave her there to die alone in the mud with no food and frozen water. No horse should endure what this poor girl endured. And, as required by law, she had a health exam and Coggins taken two days before we picked her up. We were told she was a little thin, had a cold and had been given antibiotics. Our opinion was that no vet examined her, or she would not have been allowed to travel, and that the blood sent for the Coggins test was not her blood. We have no proof of that but IF a vet actually saw her, then that vet needs to find another line of work. It was an ugly lesson to learn. We eventually received the papers and the advertised age of 9 was wrong. The mare was 21. Everything represented by the kill buyer was a lie, meant to increase the price. That’s why we are so passionate about intercepting the horse before it enters the slaughter pipeline!
