Re: uh-oh, Insulted Farrier

["Maggie Mieske" <mmieske@netonecom.net>]

One more before I go....$150?????????  Holy moly!!  What are those shoes
made of?  Plated gold???  I guess we don't live in the right area!!! 
Sheesh!!!  I don't care how good you are, that's highway robbery!!!  And we
are feeling guilty just THINKING of raising the trip charge $5 more in
light of the recent gas increases!!  (Nelson gets $60 for shoes all the way
around and $70 if we use St. Croix Eventers with clips all the way
around!).  


Maggie Mieske
Mieske's Silver Lining
10601 S. Richards Rd.
McBain, Michigan 49657
http://www.netonecom.net/~mmieske
mmieske@netonecom.net

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> From: guest@endurance.net
> To: ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: RC:  uh-oh, Insulted Farrier
> Date: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 3:55 PM
> 
> Linda B. Merims lbm@ici.net
> 
> 
> I just went through a similar situation last week.
> My farrier's reaction was even more extreme.  He 'threw me out'
> and has refused to ever shoe my horse again.  My 'sin' was
> objecting to the extensive rasping the farrier's new apprentice
> was doing to my horse's foot.  I've been with this farrier for
> three years.  I have to truck to him.  He charges a minimum of
> $150 for four shoes.  The old apprentice left and the new
> apprentice was doing my horse for the first time.  He kept
> rasping and rasping and rasping the toe in a way I'd never seen
> my horse done before.  I kept quiet until I couldn't take it
> anymore (the rasping had gone on so long I was having visions
> of blood leaking through the hoof wall) and I finally just
> blurted out, "Will you please stop rasping!"
> 
> Well, my farrier went ballistic.  "Are you trying to tell
> me how to shoe a horse?" he shouted. "He's rasping the way I taught
> him to rasp!  I'm not even going to tell you why he was rasping,
> you know so much more that I do!  You can get somebody else
> to do your horse from now and just see what happens to that
> foot!!"
> 
> It kind of went downhill from there.  I was careful not to
> respond to his fury and not to return his insults, but he didn't
> calm down before I left the way I was hoping he would.
> 
> The upshot is that I'm looking for a new farrier.
> 
> I have no intention of apologizing.  The way I look at it, if
> the farrier had been, say, a famous pediatrician and the
> apprentice a first year intern, and my horse was a little
> kid in for treatment and I was his mom, and I had objected
> to what the intern was doing in exactly the same way,
> there is no way on earth my farrier's behavior in reaction
> would be considered professional or acceptable.
> 
> 
> Linda B. Merims
> lbm@ici.net
> Massachusetts, USA
> 
> 
> 
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