You know, I really don't want to keep cranking on the vets and farriers but then I see something on TV that just really frosts me. This last time was on The Horse Show with Rick Lamb. It was about this vet that has invented this high tech "lameness detector". So to show how it works, they put it on a horse that has shoes and obvious (to me) a contracted high-heeled right front foot. The left front foot was flatter and this is so typical. It's very elaborate with sensors on various parts of the horse, the handler trots the horse (with his lead rope gripped tight and the head of the horse held to the left and high) down a concrete barn aisle. What a load of manure! But it's expensive manure! I'm sure that vet plans to sell those lameness detectors and make a lot of money on all those shod horses with contracted feet.
 


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