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This morning we did the "Dance of the Mustang". Racer was fitted with rolled toe shoes and I have to say that I was really ashamed of him and how he acted. We danced around with him for about an hour, just in trying to get one :censor::censor::censor::censor::censor::censor::censor: shoe on him. We tried backing him against the house to brace him, that didn't work, we tried twitching him (didn't work)- For you non-horsey folk you take an apparatus called a twitch and twist their lip, attach this tool and tie it tight. It curls the lip and release endorphens into their blood and calms them down- (usually). Then Racer reared and the farrier fell beneath him- oh god that was bad. Racer did not step on Clint didn't hurt him at all- though I got smacked with the twitch and now have a swollen lip.
Clint was pissed the first time I have ever seen this gentle farrier angry. And then I got mad- really mad and I yelled at Racer. I didn't smack him or kick the :censor::censor::censor::censor: out of him, I yelled- and he LISTENED I continued yelling throughout the shoeing and he stood stock still through it all looking me right in the eye. Clint kept saying "Keep it up Mary Anne it is working." and so I kept yelling at Racer to keep him still. We finished the work and then his back feet got trimmed and I released him out to the pasture.
I was never so emotionally spent than I am right now. I know that it was not pain that was causing Racer to be a butthead- he had been buted up- he just didn't want to get messed with and thought we would stop after awhile. His toe has been trimmed down and he now has new shoes for Christmas.
Clint told Mike that in all his years shoeing horses and he now shoes over 700 a year and he has never seen the type of respect that Racer holds for me in any of his clients horses and he now has the utmost respect for me and the rapport that Racer and I share.
All I know is that when he reared up and clint went flat on his belly I thought it was going to end up bad. Had Racer been another type of horse, he could have ended up breaking Clint's neck or back, but Clint's legs were spread and racer came down in the middle of the space of those legs...........I am still shaking........ Mike said that he was watching it all and that Racer was aware of where everyone was and didnâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t hurt any of us, except hitting me with the humane twitch I have never continuously yelled at that horse, and hope I never have to do it again.
Clint was pissed the first time I have ever seen this gentle farrier angry. And then I got mad- really mad and I yelled at Racer. I didn't smack him or kick the :censor::censor::censor::censor: out of him, I yelled- and he LISTENED I continued yelling throughout the shoeing and he stood stock still through it all looking me right in the eye. Clint kept saying "Keep it up Mary Anne it is working." and so I kept yelling at Racer to keep him still. We finished the work and then his back feet got trimmed and I released him out to the pasture.
I was never so emotionally spent than I am right now. I know that it was not pain that was causing Racer to be a butthead- he had been buted up- he just didn't want to get messed with and thought we would stop after awhile. His toe has been trimmed down and he now has new shoes for Christmas.
Clint told Mike that in all his years shoeing horses and he now shoes over 700 a year and he has never seen the type of respect that Racer holds for me in any of his clients horses and he now has the utmost respect for me and the rapport that Racer and I share.
All I know is that when he reared up and clint went flat on his belly I thought it was going to end up bad. Had Racer been another type of horse, he could have ended up breaking Clint's neck or back, but Clint's legs were spread and racer came down in the middle of the space of those legs...........I am still shaking........ Mike said that he was watching it all and that Racer was aware of where everyone was and didnâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t hurt any of us, except hitting me with the humane twitch I have never continuously yelled at that horse, and hope I never have to do it again.