Originally Posted by ironbender
Pard says there are enough good horses to not put up with the nonsense of some.

Some horses need to be in easy-to-handle-two-pound packages.



Well said. I can't imagine and won't put up with some of the crap people do. I spend a lot of time with good horses. I can't imagine screwing around with one that needs tied up in the trees to shoe. Had 2 reset today and a pulled shoe replaced on one. The 2 that were reset was give dormosadan(spelling?). I want them to be easy to shoe so a good job can be done along with no one being hurt. One of the horses today is a customer horse and I want the shoe job to be good and look good.

I can't think of any of my horses that after being sedated if need be for the first few shoeings continued to need it. I have very little mule experience too..... I have been interested in mules for years but no one I've been around has made me pull the trigger. I'm about to decide it's not that some mules are better but some people just prefer a mule. Maybe it's the persons patience mentality etc...?