> Yes. Because of that freaking barefoot trimmer oath making people > who use shoes look like we are cruel to our beloved horses. > > Just go to a Pete Ramey or Jackson site and read the certified > trimmers oath...its like a cult. I swear.
gosh my farrier is so good, has always done such a good job with my horses. he is the best around and i live in fear something will happen to him. And he's a nobody! he got colon cancer one year and we had to get someone else and i went thru three farriers that seemed so horrible. One got out of his truck with a twitch in his hand and started walking to where I had my old steady deadbroke jaspar tied and waiting and i said whoah ho where you going with that?!? and he said oh i twitch them all, saves a lot of trouble that way. he argued and argued but finally did it without the twitch and with no incident btw, then a month later I heard he was doing a yearling QH at a big fancy breeding farm owned by rich people and got kicked in the face and had to have like 3 surgeries to repair his face. so i was thinking hmm, he kinda has a weird method of determining whether a horse needs twitching or not based on owner income?? I was perplexed by that. I would twitch in an emergency but my Jaspar is phobic of them and I would honestly rather have him sedated than twitched, he might throw himself over backwards. last time the vet gave him his strangles intranasal stuff he sat down like Francis the mule while three people wrestled him and one had a lip twitch on him. I told the vet next time I just want him sedated. my vet is just baffled by jaspar, he shakes his head and says "he is such a mild mannered good ol horse but he DOES have that nose issue...." and I think its from being TWITCHED in the past~!! Janice -- yipie tie yie yo
