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Are there alternatives to the Easyboots that mitigate the problem of being 
overtight?  Perhaps by adhering in a slightly different manner?  I suspect 
not... but there are other products out there that I'm not familiar with.

Mike
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "k s swigart" <katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 12:51 AM
Subject: [RC] Easyboots too tight


> Karen Lynd said:
>
> > Question for easyboot users - have you ever
> > put an easyboot on too tight?  I didn't think that
> > was possible,
>
> Yes, it is possible to put easyboots on too tight and I have done it.
> After standing overnight in them after the first day of the Rocky
> Mountain ride by horse was quite lame.  I pulled his easy boots and took
> him home.  When he got of the trailer when we got home he was no longer
> lame, but he did have bruises (white feet) on the SIDES of his hoof
> walls just behind where the clamps go that were the same width as the
> heel strap of the boots...and had stripes just like the ribs of the heel
> straps.
>
> On another horse, I have had the horse start stomping her feet and
> complaining about two hours after I put the easyboots on, and she quit
> doing so the instant I loosened them.
>
> In neither of these instances was it because the heel strap came up on
> the heel bulb.
>
> kat
> Orange County, Calif.
>
>
>
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