Barefoot people - how is this OK?????

[Amaranta]

Good grief! She writes just like the dumbest of dumb Americans

She's an eejit then, I completely agree. She shouldn't be promoting self trimming from a book in this country now that we have four good trimming organisations in operation and plenty of decent farriers too.

Oooh careful, I can see you being mobbed by hoards of angry Americans wielding angle grinders

 

[ester]

 

[Littlelegs]

Ester- ROFL lmao. That's genius.

 

[amandap]

 

[MerrySherryRider]

Brilliant !

I don't care how much parelli she's done, if I were a horse faced with that, I'd run, no matter how introverted my left brain ( or should it be right brain?) was.

 

[Amaranta]

PMSL -excellent!

 

[Beausmate]

Home trimming and home schooling? Does she not trust professionals? Whether trimming your horses yourself is a good thing or not (personally I wouldn't, wouldn't rasp teeth either) I don't think I'd be taking advice from someone who uses power tools without adequate PPE. At least when they're in a promotional photo! I had a look at some hoof grinding discs the other day, OH tells me they're very similar to those used to grind ceramics, whatever their uses, I'd want to be wearing long sleeves and decent gloves if I was her. Horse waves leg, knocks the grinder and even if you let go of the button, the disc is still spinning, disc connects with bare skin and removes some of it. Ouch. Not sensible and not giving the right impression in my opinion.

 

[poppypiebald]

There's an awful lot of people who think they can save money, cut corners and do it yourself. And a whole group of people who think up ways of making money from those people in the name of 'natural horsemanship'.

If I said that the word 'gullible' wasn't in the dictionary, would you believe me?

 

[paddy555]

I looked on the website of this person to see what butchery (having read parts of this thread) she performs on these horses.
These are her pictures

http://successful-natural-horsecare.com/barefoot-horse/trimming-photos/

If someone posted a picture saying "my farrier./trimer has trimmed my foot like this" I imagine everyone would be saying "fine, what's the problem"

Not supporting this woman in any way but many people learnt to look at feet and probably trim from barefoothorse.com and no one had a problem with this.
Trimming with power tools is not new and there is, I think, a yahoo group in respect of this.
Having looked at the index on her book there does seem to be a reasonable amount of information in it that would be useful to a beginner.

 

[Littlelegs]

Beausmate- have you not seen eaters pic? How dare you question her safety wear, she has on matchy matchy gloves, boots, knee pads & eyemask as well, & matchy matchy grinder. Obviously a pro lol.

 

[Littlelegs]

Ester not eater, on phone!

 

[Amaranta]

Ester not eater, on phone!

Lol! And henceforth Ester should be known as Eater

 

[ester]

This may not be a new thing...

 

[guido16]

Well, I tried the chainsaw. Just aswell I have 2 other horses. Hey ho. Will try the electic bread knife with the next one. .

 

[mytwofriends]

Crikey ...... if it had been April Fool's Day today I'd have flagged this as a poor attempt - one too easily spotted.

 

[Littlelegs]

Guido16 not to worry, even if that fails you still have one more chance. Would you like to borrow my lawn mower to clip when you're done?

 

[ferrador]

i take it that a petrol chainsaw would be a lot safer because there are no electric cables lying around LOL
chris

 

[ester]

yes but you have to get the petrol to put in it first