Wild Soles Whole Pet Care

Wild Soles Whole Pet Care I'm Karissa Hacker and I offer pet care and house-sitting services in & around Glen Rose, Texas. I'm verified on Rover! I was born/raised with large dogs.

I have experience from puppy-aged to senior dog-aged. I have 24+ years experience with equine/farm stock. I’ve been pet/farm/house-sitting for 11+ years. Have puppy/dog training experience, including rescue/abused dogs. I’ve cared for multiple animals including, but not limited to: dogs, cats, horses, donkeys, pigs, chickens, ducks, goats, sheep, and cattle, rats, mice, and Guinea pigs. I treat an

yone’s pets better than my own to insure top care! I am used to intricate feeding/medication schedules for all types of animals. My husband and I rent a house on a cattle ranch. We have a large fenced-in yard away from livestock and our horses. If I come to your home, I will follow any and all expectations and follow-up if something is unclear. I want my visits to be as close to what your pets are used to. Feel free to message me with any questions!

The pictures everyone has been waiting for…Got some good pics of my new Mustang’s feet! He has had 2 abscess blow outs o...
09/14/2025

The pictures everyone has been waiting for…
Got some good pics of my new Mustang’s feet! He has had 2 abscess blow outs on his front left lateral wall in the last 1-2 months. My guess is trauma (during shipping or being loaded/unloaded several times). He’s been sound, but that bar is driving me nuts! Maybe if we get some rain and he stands in mud it’ll soften and pop out. Oh how I wish I could give him a good trim, but it will be a while before we get there. Enjoy!

I had leftover glue from Shimmy’s shoes and I had Gambler’s size in stock in Performances, so he got shoes on tonight. I...
09/08/2025

I had leftover glue from Shimmy’s shoes and I had Gambler’s size in stock in Performances, so he got shoes on tonight. I trimmed him this morning so it was quick and easy to put these on. EasyCare Performance shoes are the first glue-on shoes I learned to use in my trade. I always cast over these for extra protection. Gambler stayed perfectly still during the glueing process. He loves his glue-on shoes and boots!

08/31/2025

Enjoy 2.5 minutes of rock crunching ASMR as Shimmy tries out his new EasyShoe Metal Speed shoes by EasyCare Inc. Protective Hoofwear. This is 10 hours after they were applied.

08/31/2025

Applying the EasyShoe Speed Metal with glue only. Video length: 10 minutes. These can be nailed and/or glued on. This video includes trim, hoof preparation, and glueing process for these shoes. These shoes are expected to stay on for 6+ weeks. Shoes can be found on EasyCare Inc’s website. EasyCare Inc. Protective Hoofwear

Today I glued EasyShoe Speed Metals on Shimmy and it went smoothly!EasyShoe Speed Metals can be glued and/or nailed on. ...
08/27/2025

Today I glued EasyShoe Speed Metals on Shimmy and it went smoothly!

EasyShoe Speed Metals can be glued and/or nailed on. Since I'm not trained to nail shoes on, I opted for glueing only. I usually glue EasyShoe Versa Grips on Shimmy, so this will be a great shoe to compare with those because the Versa Grip has flexibility and this shoe has significantly less with the metal being in there.

Hoof trim, prep, and glueing took an hour. This would have usually taken me about 30-45 minutes, but I was stopping to take pictures and videos.

I'll be riding Shimmy doing various activities to see how these function compared to the Versa Grips.

Stay tuned for updates!

EasyCare Inc. Protective Hoofwear

It’s glue day! Stay tuned for pictures and videos!
08/27/2025

It’s glue day! Stay tuned for pictures and videos!

Just received my Speed Metal tester shoes from EasyCare Inc. Protective Hoofwear. Can’t wait to get them on Shimmy and c...
08/16/2025

Just received my Speed Metal tester shoes from EasyCare Inc. Protective Hoofwear. Can’t wait to get them on Shimmy and compare these to the Versa Grips. Stay tuned!

08/15/2025

It's so important to leave sole callus! As ugly and unfinished as it looks, sole callus is what will keep your horse sound after a trim. The only thing I do to callus is make sure it's smooth. If it pops out on its own during a trim, it was ready to come off. By the time this callus is worn off or pops out, more sole has already shed and is building more callus underneath. Callus that is paired out can take weeks, sometimes months to fill back in leaving the horse sore during that time. Leave what the hoof needs! Leave that ugly sole callus 😎🐴

08/01/2025

Let's talk about diets for a second.

No, this foot isnt perfect - I suspect thin soles and occasional bouts of laminitis due to PPID or something underlying but!!!

He is out on native grass. Not heavily fertilized for a fancy lawn grass, but actual native grass pasture. He gets 0 grain. (For inticement when I come out, he is caught up with a box of cheerios...but thats literally all he gets treat wise, 8 times a year). When we had all the rain last month, he stood around in a heavily saturated pasture for weeks on end. Your shoes got soaked just walking out in it, and it wasn't muddy. Just...very moist.

Body condition wise he goes between a 4 and 6, depending on the time of year and his grass availability.

Alot of people blame thrush on wet conditions. Most horses are not in conditions as wet as he was. What does he not have? He doesn't have any thrush. He doesn't have white line disease. He looks pretty solid foot wise living in those conditions.

There is certainly something to be said about a quality, forage based diet. He could probably benefit from a ration balancer and that would help tighten things up, but I'm okay with where he is at 🥰

07/31/2025

All I can say is - the very best donkey clients have track systems OR dry lots and species appropriate diets (hay, straw and a ration balancer, and loose salt and clean water- NOT GRASS OR SWEET FEED OR...*shudders* ALL STOCK) for their donks. Or, if that's not possible to do 24/7, they are muzzling them when they can or cycling them off the grassy pasture into smaller areas that are much closer to dry lots.

They keep their donkeys on an appropriate hoofcare schedule and don't push things because *they don't look bad* and have them caught up at the very least if they are hard to catch. I don't mind soloing, but I'm not traipsing around a large acreage after your donkeys - if they are that loose, they need to be the kind that meets me at my vehicle or comes when I call them (yes, I have quite a few that do this).

They work with their donkeys if there are any issues (kicking, etc) and treat them for thrush and any other issues (which they really shouldn't have much of if managed well.)

They have a donkey friend for their donkey (donkeys tolerate horses, but truly prefer donkey friends).

Pictured - excellent donkey clients track with her very good boys on it.

07/25/2025

Hoof trim for Gambler tonight

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PO Box 532
Glen Rose, TX
76043

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+12543964313

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Karissa Hunter is a Certified Natural Hoof Care Practitioner out of Glen Rose,Texas. She has a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences from Northern Illinois University, with a focus in Chemistry and Microbiology. Getting her start with a natural hoof care apprenticeship in Glen Rose, Texas in March 2012, she has since attended numerous hoof care clinics, learning about hooves inside and out by trimming and dissecting horse and donkey cadaver legs. Karissa's overall focus is natural horse care as a whole, considering the underlying problems, as well as the hooves. She trims with the utmost patience, for respect of the horse's needs. She attends continuing education classes at least once a year to keep up with new research and techniques to better your horse's life. *Official EasyCare dealer with some products on-hand. Current services include: *Hoof rehabilitation for founder, navicular, cracks, abscessing, and other lamenesses. *Shod-to-barefoot transitions with the help of EasyCare products *Maintenance barefoot trimming *Diet/nutrition advice *Natural horse-keeping advice *Sheath cleaning *F***l counts