What I did today

Here's what I did this morning. This is the before and after shot of the left front hoof of one of my customers. This is a good example of the way I trim a hoof with very long toes. (I know, this means nothing to you but humor me and pretend it does and that you're totally impressed.)

These hooves are attached to a horse worth more than my life--about 30,000USD. It makes me nervous to work on such an expensive horse but luckily he and his owner are very chill and both understand and believe in what I'm doing. (Actually, I'm not sure the horse understands what I'm doing). The fact that his hooves look and feel 10x better than they did when she first bought him in August doesn't hurt either.

Spain does a lot of things well--Spanish, wine, tapas, mid-day naps--but hoof care isn't one of them. This horse was imported from Spain and has the terrible feet anyone who has seen a few horses imported from Spain would expect.

The good news is that in 4-5 more months these feet will look totally normal.

The barn manager was there instead of the owner today which had me worried. Barn managers are notoriously bitchy people who dislike both people and horses. Usually they are especially bitchy to barefoot trimmers. It was my lucky day though, and the manager was a super nice lady who was helpful and polite to me. She was even nice to Ven--despite that he peed on a pile of hay right in front of her.

Best of all, another person at that same barn wants me to trim her two horses the next time I come. Yay!

By the way, the reason the owner couldn't make it to the barn was that she got caught yesterday driving her scooter too fast. Apparently she's had it souped up to be able to do over the speed limit for scooters and she can't drive it again until it's fixed and inspected by the police. I am telling you this to point out the fact that this woman has bought a 30,000USD horse in the last few months but cannot afford a car.

To be fair, if I wasn't married and had 30,000USD I'd probably blow it on a horse too.