Barefoot police horses

[Oberon]

Since 2002, the Houston police service have been transitioning their horses in order to try and reduce costs caused by lameness and injury. Since 2008, the whole lot of them have been barefoot.

This isn't news to most people, but I enjoyed reading this article from the police officer's perspective.

http://www.aanhcp.net/MountedPatrol_HiRes1.pdf

 

[Clava]

That's very interesting

 

[Pale Rider]

I spoke with some GMP riders the other day, we talked about barefoot and how I thought it would benefit their horses spending hours walking on roads and occasionally being asked to trot or canter on tarmac. I think it will be a long time before they take barefoot on board, lol.

 

[Pedantic]

Very interesting, maybe if the riders lost a bit of weight as well, the horses would be even happier

 

[tallyho!]

Thanks for posting. Pleased to see they are doing well