Our very own money pit!!!

Wow, it's a good thing I love my horses or this little guy would be down the friggin' road! As you know, when Bryon and I got married we bought him a horse (that I have officially taken over). I guess we didn't factor in that he is 19 years old and that he was going to have issues, can I just say that he has been SO expensive to maintain!?! We had the whole ordeal with the Ulcers and the trauma that it took to figure out the issue. As a result of the ulcers he got terrible bed sores on his front legs. We have had a heck of a time keeping them cleaned and healing. Everytime one heals up the other gets bad and so on and so forth.... Well, I went to my very first horse show after having Madi and right in the middle of my class, he started limping really bad....... WHAT NOW!?!?!?! Seriously, I was so upset! So we had the farrier out to do some hoof tests on him and then the vet out to block him and take a million x-rays, it turns out he has Navicular. I guess the best way to describe what that is - is inflamation or degeneration of the navicular bone (thank you Wikipedia) which sits in the foot. Basically his bone is pushing down on the tender part (frog) of his foot. So every time he takes a step he is feeling it in his bones in his front legs. I can only imagine how painful that is! Anyway, the best solution for our old guy right now is special shoes. He is now wearing the Dr. Marten's (or todays equivalent to the 90's version of top selling shoes) of horse shoes. Check this out!

His shoe is made up of a thick rubber wedge, A mesh layering and a thick cushion material that works similar to Dr. Scholls and the metal shoe of course. I hate paying the shoe bill every 8 weeks but he is feeling better than ever before! I guess he is worth it... I'm kidding, we love this old man and he is worth his weight in gold!