She said she wanted to follow her Vet and Farrier’s advice, stating that they will not allow Blue out of metal shoes. I explained to Sarah that as soon as she would put a metal shoe in an Eas圜are boot, she would negate the warranty. While Sarah is aware that Eas圜are does not recommend the use of metal shoes with hoof boots, due to the problems of stabilizing the pedal bone, her Vet and Farrier recommended putting frog supports on him and using the Easyboot RX with them. They had special shoes made for Blue and he also had a dorsal wall section. Blue came down off the trailer, the Vet got out a knife, drop released and recovery began.

Sarah said she then brought Blue to a top class Vet in Ireland. Then the coffin bones started to rotate and they were lucky to stop them. The Vet put him on antibiotics, which surpressed everything. She said that he never showed signs of lameness on his foot or heat or anything. He ended up with a simple “drop” in one of his front feet.

Then, last July, he suddenly went, what she called, “footy” on both his hind legs. With time and care, he was hunting again.

His coffin bone was 2mm from coming through the foot. She said it was a miracle that he survived. Sarah told me that the pony, Blue, got his first bout of laminitis about four and a half years ago. She recently emailed me about her Connemara pony, who suffered a serious bout of laminitis.

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