12/10/2025
Just two minutes of picking a horse's feet while he's tied. This horse came to me not able to pick up his feet, showed some nervousness and tendencies to want to kick, and has had his feet roped in order to get him trimmed.
I've worked hard with him the last month to make handling his feet just another part of his day. What I really like in this video is that he is calm and mostly relaxed through the process. Being tied adds a level of difficulty to the ask and he handled it with ease. He's also not bothered by the hoof pick or the fact that the first hoof in particular took me awhile to pick. He didn't try and pull his foot away and stayed patient. His final hoof you can see a little bit of that nervousness creep back in but he was able to work through it and did not escalate into trying to kick at me. Huge progress for this horse and I eagerly await early January when his next trim is so we can see if all our work will help pass the test of a trim.
