Moli Update

After a few rounds barefoot, I put casts back on Moli's feet yesterday.  Her feet are looking and working so much better, but the tendon injury is causing her to move differently and the front right foot is showing the effects.  The separation between her sole and hoof wall on this foot is getting slowly worse and the shape of her hoof is less round then oval - with the inside wall/sole growing faster than the outside.  Now that I am more aware of the changes that an injury can cause in the hoof - I wonder if these nagging issues we have been having the last couple years don't go back to her original injury as a filly.  I never found out how it happened, but she has deep scaring across the side and back of her front right foot.  I do know the injury ruined her chances at showing and is the reason she was available for me to have the chance to own her.



I continue to soak up any and all information that Pete Ramey and other leaders in the barefoot world can turn out.  I know I'm going to find an answer to this issue - the answer may not mean actually riding Moli, but if I could keep her comfortable ALL the time instead of some of the time.  Riding again would be an awesome result though - I sure miss our time together under saddle.  For now, she is comfortable and my latest DVD set from Pete, "That's My Horse #2" has given me some ideas for a trimming/casting plan to get the right front foot looking and working as well as the left front is now.

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