Re: Re: hoof soreness

["Cheryl Newbanks" <canewbanks@earthlink.net>]

I don't know this Cheryl Shelton person but I have a question for her, have
you ever even done an endurance ride of any length in a REAL competition?
Just curious because I think if you had Heidi wouldn't have to be explaining
what she did to you below.  Horses can't mask pain, it's really that simple!


                                   Cheryl Newbanks
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---- Original Message -----
From: Heidi Smith <heidi@sagehillcmk.com>
To: Cheryl Shelton <toltallyice@onewest.net>; ridecamp
<ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 2:10 PM
Subject: RC: Re: hoof soreness


> > If you think your
> > horse's feet are any different, IMO, you ARE in denial. Plain and
simple.
> If
> > you say your shod horse's feet are pain free after a long endurance
> race...
> > for me this only proves the theory that horse shoes are masking the
> horse's
> > ability to feel the pain, soreness, damage, what ever.
>
> Horses are notoriously honest.  If they have pain, they compensate for
> it--by limping, by shortening their stride, whatever it takes to move with
> less discomfort.  If a horse moves out willingly in a big flying trot
after
> completing a 100-miler, you don't need ANYONE to tell you he is pain
> free--he is telling you that himself.  And once again, if his nerve
endings
> are intact (neither surgically altered nor drug altered), there is no
> "masking" of pain--if he isn't feeling it, IT AIN'T THERE!!  (Refer back
to
> the definition of "pain.")  What the shoes have done is PREVENT DAMAGE,
not
> mask pain.  These two things are NOT one and the same.  And riding the
horse
> without causing him damage is precisely what endurance riders try to do.
>
> Heidi
>
>
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