Dangit

 Well.. I was optimistic! My farrier is amazing and got the message about me wanting him to come put Lyrics shoe back on and luckily Dan's special fancy shoes arrived so..he came last night. Bless him, he had to wait a tiny bit for me to get home because I was working later than him. I'm so grateful. Especially because I was wanting to ride today. But mostly because she's been so lame without a shoe.. even with the scoot boot on. So.. we got it put back on. She didn't test positive anywhere specifically with the hoof testers so we're hoping we avoided an abscess. I gave her some bute last night although she walked off so much better once the shoe was back on. 

I sent him this photo right after he left. THIS... THIS is why we can't have nice things. Dingbat! Luckily, all four shoes were still on!

This morning she was still a little gimpy so I gave her another dose of bute and turned her back out to eat her hay. I had breakfast and rode Funny first so she had time to let her bute kick in. But unfortunately she was still lame. Sigh... It started off okay at the walk. Just lazy and a bum, but she was like that the last few rides in the arena too. We picked up the trot and she was slightly lame. Like... barely noticeable but then it got worse when we tracked left and that left front was on the inside. I tried to ride through it and see if she'd work out of it but she didn't. I did make her canter each way because I thought maybe??? The right lead canter was fine but the left lead she did NOT want to go into and ran into it and then felt pretty rough so I pulled her up quickly. We got one nice trot going to the right and then called it quits. 

 
Ugh... second ride of the day, second ride ending in tears. I just want my ponies to be okay. And at the time, I was thinking that maybe it's not the shoe... maybe she's done something else and that's why she looked a little head bobby the other day. But now (not then) I remembered she was landing heavy on the right front, which made me think she was lame on the right front. But.. maybe she's landing heavy to stay off the left front. But it was worse tracking right, so.... maybe I'm just imagining the worst because of my current mental status. Sigh... 

I hosed her off and turned her back out. I guess I'll give it til Thursday and see what we've got again.

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