Trimming and Podiatrist qualifications... differences

[Queenbee]

I am training with the UKNHCP at the moment, so can only really speak for them, but if I can give you an insight in to our training I will...

Sooo...it's 18 months long (not a month!!) you have to go through a REALLY tough interview process, they don't just take any old tom dick or harry, you have to show intelligence, commitment and a real passion for the subject.

Then the hard work begins....LOTS of reading material, a nutrition course with one of the top independant equine nutritionists in the World, numerous dissections (something that farriers don't tend to do!), shadowing, saddle fitting course, numerous days with farriers and other trimmers, intensive trim weeks, biomechanics and physiology course, mentoring scheme and case studies, god what else...can't think...but it's really in depth and a huge exam at the end. We then have CPD for the rest of our working careers.

So you can see that, at least for the UKNHCP qualified trimmers, they really are trained in a whole spectrum of subject, from numerous people to give them a really rounded start to their careers.

Hope that helps you get an insight of a UKNHCP trimmer.

But I would say - if you have the choice of having a farrier, UKNHCP, AANHCP or EP...then you're very lucky as most areas will only have one person interested in PROPER barefoot!

Kittykat, thanks for that, that is really the kind of information I am looking for. I think we have so many types of practitioners down here because the farrier to horse ratio was very low, there just weren't enough to go around. As I said, my farrier would try to convince people to go barefoot at every opportunity, and a lot of this was to do with the sheer amount of clients he had, the more that were barefoot, the more he could do. I think those types of factors certainly created an opening for more barefoot practitioners down here.

 

[DebbieCG]

queenbee

You wrote:

'Debbie, you wrote me a veritable novel, I do not generally bother with fully reading a 10000 word essay in my pm box, especially when that person has written an equally long post in response to me. I am sorry for your loss and happy that that organisation is what it purports to be.'



So thanks, glad to see you have at last said and done the decent thing.

Would have been a lot easier if you'd just posted that on the other thread you yourself kinda hijacked. (Then I wouldn't have had to send you a Million word (sarcasm alert, although that should be more than obvious) message of 'drivel' about my experience of being a horsetheft victim – (something you purpoted to know causes misery) and about my reason for thanking a genuine and non-profit organisation for offering to help others – all that message of drivel just to prove how wrong you were.

Yes, 'Queen Bee' it's all very good to question things – but there are much better, more polite and wiser and less harmful ways to go about it, rather than offending genuine people.

Throwing in a grenade and then walking away aint the way to do it (that's metephorical by the way tinged with a bit of sarcasm, m'dear)

Ta for the apology anyway ; )

 

[Queenbee]

Debbie,

Last word on the subject. I apologised for your loss, not for my posts, there is a difference.

I will question in any way I chose, and I did not walk away from the post, I responded, and clarified my point, and also said that if they were genuine, then that was fantastic, the OP responded and clarified her terminology, and thus the main point of my query was entirely resolved.


You obviously have anger issues, for which you seem to see me as an outlet. I am happy for you if posting to me has 'helped' you in any way but from now on, even though you are not a troll, I shall be treating you as such and ignoring you, because I find you annoying.

Should anyone else wish to post anything regarding the original post, then feel free, or you can PM me, although I think that the subject has been covered quite well for me.

Thanks everyone, hope you enjoyed the show

 

[DebbieCG]

Debbie,

Last word on the subject. I apologised for your loss, not for my posts, there is a difference.

I will question in any way I chose, and I did not walk away from the post, I responded, and clarified my point, and also said that if they were genuine, then that was fantastic, the OP responded and clarified her terminology, and thus the main point of my query was entirely resolved.


You obviously have anger issues, for which you seem to see me as an outlet. I am happy for you if posting to me has 'helped' you in any way but from now on, even though you are not a troll, I shall be treating you as such and ignoring you, because I find you annoying.

Should anyone else wish to post anything regarding the original post, then feel free, or you can PM me, although I think that the subject has been covered quite well for me.

Thanks everyone, hope you enjoyed the show

queenbee, thanks - it will be a relief to be ignored by you. I find you annoying too.

You obviously have control issues (seems to be one rule for you and not for others/double standards) and for the record you did not have the curtesy to respond to me on the other thread after I had to confirm to you who I was which was due only to the accusatory nature of your comments about me.

I genuinely thank you though for your comment about my stolen horse. I am planning to put a thread about him on the stolen horse section at some stage to see if anyone recognises him from the past (the internet can be a powerful tool, which we did not have the benefit of 25 years ago). I would be grateful if you would ignore that thread too as I will do to yours. End of.