While I was in Missoula running errands today, Alayne was busy with our farrier, Rich Boyle, who had come out to trim the horses' hooves. One of our blind horses, Rosie, has always had very thin soles on her feet, which can make her ouchy. The first time we saw her like this, a few years ago right after she arrived, we thought she was developing laminitis, but it turned out to be chronically thin soles. We found that the only thing that works for her is to put shoes on with a protective pad underneath. She does fine during the winter on snow without them, but once spring rolls around, it's time to get her shoes on.
In the photo above that Alayne took this morning, Rich is sizing a horseshoe to get the right fit. You can see Rosie is patiently standing there while he checks the fitting.
And here she is right after Rich has finished shoeing her:
That's a look that says, "Thanks for the new shoes, now can I get back to my breakfast?"
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Don't forget, you can vote every day for us in The Animal Rescue Site/PetFinder's Shelter Challenge.
Enter
"Rolling Dog Ranch" and our state postal code, MT for Montana,
and it will bring up our listing so you can cast your vote. Invite your family and friends to vote, too!
Still No. 3 — please keep voting!
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A side note: Our main Web site at rollingdogranch.org was down from Tuesday evening through Wednesday night because of a server problem at our Web hosting company, and we heard from a lot of folks who were trying to access the blog via our Web site. The blog is actually hosted by a different company, TypePad, and you can always access it directly at http://rollingdogranch.typepad.com/ if our main Web site is down. So you might want to bookmark that link for future reference.
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