A fellow livery's old cob has got laminitis, poor old chap. No surprise to me or any of the other liveries in our field as he was grossly overweight and on far too much grass, but it attacked really hard.
She asked me to say hello to him the other day as she is immobilised after a hip replacement so I went to pet him in his stable and found him with shoes on all 4 feet. Apparently he was in so much pain when they came off that the farrier put them back on again! I didn't know what to say as I thought shoes had to come off at the first sign of lami.
Is there an argument for leaving shoes on, then?
She asked me to say hello to him the other day as she is immobilised after a hip replacement so I went to pet him in his stable and found him with shoes on all 4 feet. Apparently he was in so much pain when they came off that the farrier put them back on again! I didn't know what to say as I thought shoes had to come off at the first sign of lami.
Is there an argument for leaving shoes on, then?