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[Kenzo]

Why does it hurt so much when a horse stands your foot or should I say big toe!

Tacking my Mackenzie yesterday and he went and stood on my foot ...arhhhhhhhh!!

You know when they don't just stand on your foot though...oh no that's just not painful enough is it!!!

They have to strategically stand on just one toe rather than spreading the weight...or should I say pain over the rest of your little piggy wiggys

, while you stand there struggling to push them off you while balancing on one leg trying to hop but is under a horses foot! and shrieking a whole new language

that would even make me blush

, then, once they decide to move off your toe ....which is now burning up and has got its on pulse! they decide to do another painful manoover and kinda pirouette at the same time as they lift there foot off, just to rub that pain in a little bit more!!!!

There I was puffing and panting, hopping around the yard, sucking in deep breaths of cold air to stop me from fainting, stripping off my layers of jackets and looking for the nearest piece of unmelted snow to stick my throbbing toe in.

I swear they do it on purpose.

Bye bye big toe with pink nail varnish, hello blue toe with black nail.....that is clutching on for dear life.

Share your toe injuries with me and make me feel better, anyone else been stood on this weekend?

 

[Morrigan_Lady]

My mare (all 17.1 of her) stood on my foot about a month ago and it still hurts and is bruised and my toe nail is still a funny colour aswell.

 

[siani1989]

i dont no why but that made me laugh so much

i was walking my horse down the path yesterday on a none icy bit and his leg slipped out where i was walking and he legged me up , im flat on floor i get up and walk off and i turned round to say hello to someone and he stood on my foot

i have a half shaped hoof print on my foot

 

[siani1989]

btw kenzo i like your siggy

 

[fine_and_dandy]

I had a horse stand on the middle of my foot with a stud in once...I won't repeat the language I used to turn the air blue that day! I still have a mark where he got me.

 

[Paint it Lucky]

I know exactly what you mean Kenzo! They do like to rub it in don't they.

I had a horse stand on my foot once as he was in the process of trying to barge out of his stable so he put all his weight on my foot and I only had thin boots on at the time, it hurt so much I thought I had broken it and went to A&E (how embarrassing), needless to say it wasn't broken, I was just over-reacting!

 

[Stacie_and_Jed]

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Why does it hurt so much when a horse stands your foot or should I say big toe!



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Im guessing it has something to do with the horse weighing maybe around half a tonne????

I could be wrong though!!!

 

[Hippona]

Its when they kind of sliiiiide off your foot/toe and squash the very tip...rather than just lifting their foot up...thats the worse bit!

See you have removed the dodgy 'covering' siggy!

 

[sueandtoto]

I feel your pain

, Toto has massive feet for a pony and trod on my toe when he refused to load one day , he stamped on it and turned at the same time , I screamed in pain and he buggered off knocking me clean over in his panic !

 

[Kenzo]

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btw kenzo i like your siggy

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Thanks, pretty much somes up our relationship when he's not being too loving (dont ask!

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You never know, half a horse shoe print on feet might catch on, bet Any Winerack aint got one!

 

[Fazermum]

One daughters horse decided to stand on my foot, full weight, and I'm sure she purposely ground it into the ramp, when trying to load her to go to Pony Club Summer Camp a few years back. It was a very stressy situation, 2 horses, all the kit for them and 2 teenagers + bikes in 1 4x4. Horse arguing about loading, daughter getting stressed... daughter telling mum to go behind hose - can't... I'm pinned down..... muttering a few choice words and tears of pain escaping from the corner of my eye (but no screams at either horse or daughters!).

Once loaded had to drive from Wales (just) to Stoner School, then unloading other end. Instructors there very sympathetic, whipped my boot off to see the swollen multicoloured foot. Insisted I should go to the hospital but I couldn't! I was being met at camp by OH on our touring bike to take a week in France. OH not into horses, totally unsympathetic about anything equestrian. So had to force foot into biking boot and spend a week with a throbbing pain and fights to get foot in and out of boot for the week. Couldn't walk far either but then it was a biking holiday so not much walking involved.

Good grief! What we all do to try and keep a harmonious household when there is an anti-horse husband involved. I must start a thread to ask how others cope!

Anyway, never went to the hospital in the end, the bones do feel slightly different than the other foot, and like silver_robin I had a half shape hoof print for several months after.

The mare did exactly the same thing the following year - but I was ready for her, I had steel toe capped boots on

 

[0ldmare]

Sorry, its cruel of me, but your post did make me giggle. Its bl00dy agony though and the worst thing is they dont GET OFF your foot with any speed at all, do they. Last time mine trod on my toe I was screaming and shoving at her and she sort of rocked away and then back with her full weight back on my poor crushed toe while looking at me in a questioning way. Over the next week my toe nail eventually turned black and then fell off. A new one grew back though.

 

[catdragon]

I was lifting my cobs leg up to stretch it out (just put her saddle on), don't know why she did it, but she just jumped at me and landed square on top of my foot.. SOO glad it wasn't on my toes..must admit it hurt so much I didn't even swear..

Then last summer she was on box rest for a lameness issue. She'd been in a month and the vet asks me to run her up the lane (its a private farm road so no traffic thank God), but there are caravans that the contractors live in. Just got alongside one when the lady came out and flicked some washing prior to pegging it on the line, well my mare decides that is the scariest thing (shes a spooky sod anyway) and we went from trot to cat leap landing on me and the only reason I didn't eat dirt is that she'd actually pinioned me against her... Thought I'd broke my ankle, had a hoof print on my jeans that slid all the way to my ankle.. but got away with bruising. It did induce the horse related tourettes though

I was SO embarassed that the vet saw the whole thing, didn't want to cry in front of him so said it was fine and he just gawped at me like I was a superwoman or something and congratulated me on keeping hold of my half ton of bouncing--supposed to be lame madam....

It hurt to walk for weeks after, good thing I couldnt ride really

 

[Sprout]

Broken toes caused by hefty horses landing on them hurt - I have had two!

Then last week the "neurotic one" did a vertical spook while I was grooming him, and came down on my foot - cue a very attractive swollen, blue foot complete with road nail marks!

 

[Taffster]

Taf stands on your foot, then applies all his weight onto the leg that is gently crushing your toes. Whilst he is leaning into you he looks as if to say "For all the times i said No Mum, i dont want to do lateral work today" I am just returning you a compliment then a great big lick on the side of the face just to say no hard feelings. Except for the great big blackened pulsing toe he has just left behind!

 

[jennyava]

I had a 17.3hh put all its weight on my big toe - not nice! My toe nail was black for months and months before eventually falling off! Sorry, suppose that did not make you feel better!

The only thing I could find to cool down my toe was Ice tight at the time...