Horses that have suffered soundness problems, such as laminitis, navicular and long-toe/low-heel disease may need safety shoes in order to be comfortable. ferragamo
safety boots may be used to correct the shape of the horse's foot, if necessary. It is best to start trimming and shaping the horse's foot at a very young age in order to reduce the possibility of causing any strain to other parts of the body. Just like you humans, if you're back hurts it's usually because of a problem with your feet. We are the same.
So why do we need safety shoes? In a nutshell, it's simply because we are domesticated. Humans expect us to carry a rider over varying terrain without doing anything to prepare our hooves for this work. So, our hooves need reinforcement to provide protection, prevent excess wear and to cope with the demands of domestication. Applying a tory burch flat provides that reinforcement - right? Absolutely.
However, there is one small problem (actually, it's quite a major problem). By nailing an artificial metal structure to the hoof, you greatly increase concussion and interferes with the ability of our hoof to function correctly. An independent study by an insurance company found that 90% of equine lameness issues turned out to be associated with the hoof. Does that mean safety shoes are bad? Of course not. They enable us to safety boots enjoy riding while keeping our tootsies comfortable. But for every action there is a reaction and that reaction can manifest itself in many ways - ringbone, sidebone, abscessing, bruising, broken walls, thin soles, flare, arthritis, navicular, pedal osteitis, ligament damage, tendon damage, tripping, and last but not least forging. Not all of these problems are directly caused by shoeing, but they are very common in the domesticated horse and there is an increasing body of evidence to suggest that shoeing is part of the problem and not the solution we first thought it was.
The decision of whether to shoe or not should be a choice and not a necessity. If the horse is sound in
work boots , but lame without, is your horse truly sound? The cry of "my horse needs safety shoes because he has terrible feet" is heard often. However, if your horse has terrible feet, maybe it's time you took the work boots off, gave him a rest, and sorted them out before the foot problem develops into a tendon, back, shoulder, or even tooth problem. By all means put the tory burch flats on afterwards, but don't keep him shod to disguise his lameness and continue riding or you could be leaving your horse wide open to other problems further down the road. ALL horses are capable of complete soundness without safety shoes.
She wears ballet slippers so she can prance on her toes and look like an angel while she pirouettes and leaps for all she's worth. She couldn't do that if she had stiletto heels on could she? It's the same for us. Depending on our "job" decides what kind of
safety shoes would be right for us. Horse safety shoes were invented about 2000 years ago and were made from rawhide by the Greeks. Later, the horseshoe was forged from metal by a blacksmith. The metal safety shoes didn't wear out nearly as fast as the rawhide ones and quickly became the popular choice
