Snazzles has been off the pain killers since Friday morning and is absolutely fine. He’s standing squarely in front and raring to get out in the field. If it wasn’t for fact he has his front shoes off I would turn him out. But knowing from past experience his hoofs tend to break easily. I know that those who favour barefoot say this phase passes. Right now I’m not ready for him to go au naturel!

The next phase is for the farrier to come out and put his shoes back on. I am a bit apprehensive that this might trigger something. But then if it does at least we will know a little bit more about what’s going on. Personally I now think he was just a bit bruised from the snow shoes and farrier visit.

I am still kicking myself about getting the vet out so promptly! Even more so today when I got the bill £250 to come out and put the fear of god into me, I’m not happy with the way it was handle. Equally though I am not happy with myself and I should of given him some box rest before calling them out. I’ve definitely learnt my lesson this time.

So that’s it I’m going to draw a line under it now. What’s done is done and I now have a nice bill to pay. All that really matters to me is that Nas or any of my animals aren’t suffering in anyway. So the second someone suggested he was I went into irrational meltdown mode, The worry makes me feel like I am going Insane.