Hoof Owie

Paj has crummy feet.  His youth was filled with thrown shoes, hoof abscesses and missing chucks of hooves.  When we moved to the ranch five years ago, these problems miraculously disappeared.  The move brought way more turnout time, better nutrition and a change of farrier; all excellent things for hooves.

Given Paj's past, I was a bit panicked when I saw this -

I emailed the photo to our farrier, who came ASAP.  He reassured me that it isn't as bad as it looks, and we aren't headed back to Hoof Hell.  Sometimes an owie is just an owie.  He put an acrylic patch on it so that Paj doesn't catch it on anything and rip the shoe off.  

Whew, I feel better.  But I'll be darn glad when this grows out.

I started thinking about technology, and how handy it is to be able to take photos and email them, which of course made me think about what it must have been like before phones.  Would you have to lead your horse to the village smithy?  And there wouldn't be any acrylic patching either.  And then I started thinking about vets and doctors in the old days.  We have it easy.

Blogger Problem

Sorry for the lack of comments from me on blogs, but something is wrong with my Reader List.  Only one blog appears in the list.  I've tried using different search engines and even different computers with no luck.  This is Day 2.  I'm wondering if anyone else having this problem.