Hi and welcome to our website.  My Name is Paul, and along with my wife Denice we own "The Mini Distractions Farm".  It's more like a zoo than a farm!  We have about an acre that we stocked with mini horses, dogs, fish and a few hundred sea monkeys!

We became involved with Miniature horses a few years back due to a mixture of insanity and inherited love of horses in my wife Denice (well probably a little insanity on my part for going along with it). 

 

Denice lost her mother to a tragic accident with a full-sized horse and really thought she would never want one around again. After many years and a couple of children she felt the urge for horses again.  She wanted to share that passion with our children but she did not want full-size horses. 

She was surfing the net one day and came across a company that did mini horse therapy, and she was hooked.

 

Our initial horse, Angel,  was a back yard pet.  We felt she would be fun for us and also provide 'therapy' for our godson and several developmentally disabled children from families we knew.

Angel got us involved in the Mini Horse community.  The new friends we met through the "mini horse" community  talked us into attending a horse show.  Soon after that we bought our first mini to show, our initial plans were to just show at the children's level.  We quickly became involved in horse shows, and all of us have now shown our horses at least once.

 

I didn't particularly like showing: To me it was like having my children judged.  I just don't understand how they couldn't take first every time!

For fun we took the horses to our kids school and discovered how much children responded to the horses.  Andrew and I fell in love with bringing the horses to see other kids.  We found that it was especially rewarding to take them to meet children with disabilities.  Kids who normally don't respond to anything responded to the mini horses, it is incredibly rewarding! 

We have had the horses all over, from elementary schools to the children's pediatric dental office for a Christmas Party, to Parades, and Senior homes, and we've had a blast!

From our love for dogs, we've moved into breeding what we consider to be the BEST all around dog, Miniature Rat Terriers! Please visit our Rattie page to see our beautiful puppies!

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