Re: RC: Corrective/Pathological Shoeing

[Dave & Abby Bloxsom <cyclone@snet.net>]

"C.M.Newell" wrote:
> 
> At 10:32 AM 9/27/99 EDT, you wrote:
> >I would respectfully caution riders, who ride the miles required in
> >endurance, against considering "trailers" on rear feet, particularly on
> >horses who are "old enough to do endurance".
> >    Corrective shoeing to "correct (help, aid, etc.) hoof growth, underslung
> >heels, etc., is, for the most part, okay.
> >    But when "corrective" shoeing is employed in the rear to
> "straighten-out"
> >cowhocked horses, then years of limb-alignment and biomechanisms that the
> >horse has employed (and has learned to manage) are impacted in such a way
> >that serious descript and non-descript lameness can occur.
> 
>         Thank you, thank you, thank you! You saved me a lot of typing <G>.
> 
>                                 --CMNewell, DVM
> 
And I must say thank you as well:  Let's all try not to get into shoeing
that changes the way Mother Nature assembled the horse.

-Abby Bloxsom
part-time shoer



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