OMG. I thought that all that could have been said about shoes had been. How foolish a Funder!
Accepting that it is simply impossible to get shoeing right (and trust me the level of abject and desperate misery that shoeing can drive the Funded to knows no bounds), it is nonetheless wholly in the spirit of the shoemaker to Imelda Marco that I take my hat off to the latest fad of rubberised stick-ons. What could be better for a horse than no nails. Well, first they give all farriers another opportunity to suck their teeth and say that it is simply impossible to shoe X until they have had more growth and in the meantime a rubber stick on has to be the answer. If only the Funded had come to them first and not their competitor (the reason usually being of course the recommendation of a very important “name” or vet). So the conversation goes ” whoever did this cut off too much [hoof/heel/toe] and it is now too [long/short/low/high], and definitely not “balanced”]. Sadly without the new [very expensive] stick on shoe and lots of remediation this [very expensive] horse will suffer [immediate/lingering] death from [navicular/laminitis/pedal bone drop(whatever that is)/etc etc].
How fortunate it is that such a marvellous remedy can be applied. A phenomenon at half the price…………..until the wretched beast has the temerity to wear it in a [muddy] field, and off it comes.
thehorsefunder 
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