Never be around horses WITHOUT suitable footwear on... ***GRAPHIC***

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This picture was just posted on my FB...

It's amazing how complacent we can all become even around horses we trust... Never be/work around horses without the correct footwear on...

OUCH!!
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It just goes to show how easy accident can happen, we all cut corners in a rush or forget to do certain things... our safey around horses must come first. Even things like lunging with gloves on, I bet we can all put our hands up and say we have lunged at some point without gloves on, maybe on a warm day or didn't have the time to find your gloves...
 
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Yowsers! :eek:

But then hardly any of us on here will wear toecaps all the time will they, they're the only things that will really help your feet :)
 
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That has to be a flip flop footwear injury. She won't be making that mistake again...
 
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Agree that must have been flip flops. Even non toe cap boots would stop your skin getting ripped like that surely :(
 
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Stencilface said:
Yowsers! :eek:

But then hardly any of us on here will wear toecaps all the time will they, they're the only things that will really help your feet :)
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I must say that I've worn Mountian Horse toe caps for the last 6/7 years... I was stod on, nothing too serious, just bad bruising... but I never took the chance again, and I don't lunge without gloves now since lunging a youngster many years ago and having a lovely nylon rope burn across the palm of my hand, looked like I been cained lol

But prior to minor things happening to me, I always cut corners, maybe the older you get, the wiser you get :)
 
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Arrrgh that is horrible! I pretty much always wear some sort of boot. I want some steel toe ones but they were either a bit tight in the toe (big feet me) or too chunky and big, anyone got any good ones (not too pricey)?
 
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Ouch poor girl :(

However regarding steel toe caps. I have always been told not to wear them because, apparently, in an emergency of extreme pressure they are designed to collapse down to sever the toes?? I don't know how much truth there is in it but that's what we have been told at college - an agri college.

Hope she recovers and isn't left with too bad a scar. I know a girl how got her foot trapped in the back chain of a tandem and the other person, unaware, kept cycling. Her foot was mangled but with reconstructive surgery and skin graph you'd hardly know now :)

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