Yes, it is your fault!!

[Bikerchickone]

OP maybe you'd be helping your cause a lot more by not coming across as the perfect owner yourself trying to insist that barefoot is the only way to go in all cases! I'm seriously struggling to get my vet to concede that barefoot is an option for my very poorly horse and attitudes like yours don't help at all. If you want your methods to be taken seriously try talking about them in a sensible fashion. Don't blast somebody else when you cannot possibly know everything about what happened. Your attitude is not helping the barefoot cause at all! I can just imagine how reading your posts would make my vet view my consideration of barefoot!

 

[AmyMay]

Four years ago this horse had an acute lamanitic attack. The owner who is a friend of mine brought it to us as we had recovered a number of lamanitic's up to then. The horse had severe rotation, but with a decent diet and following a barefoot recovery, it wasn't long before it was right. After 12 mths the feet were back to normal. The next three years the horse was fine. My friend recently got made redundant, so had to sell the horse. That was about eight weeks ago. The woman who bought him, knew the history, and bought him only on condition she would promise to keep him on his barefoot regime. After she bought him, she announced she was going to do things properly and put him on an expensive top of the range mix. Not long after, he's footy, so she has him shod. Then he has a lamanitic attack. Before we can get him back off her the vet has put him down. Vet almost delights in telling us that barefoot is a, fad, no he doesn't know about Ramey, Jackson, or Rockley or anything.
Yes I do bame the vet the owner and the farrier. The vet is just incompetent, the farrier and owner knew the history and are just evil. I've told the lot of them what I think. So that's it a really nice horse dead.

Well there is no evidence there that the owner was at fault, nor farrier or vet. And of course PR you could simply have purchased the pony yourself if you'd been so concerned.

There's a lot of drivel posted sometimes on this forum. This almost takes the biscuit.