Yesterday, Saint Paddy's Day, the farrier came to trim our mustang's hooves. He did Thousand's hooves first and a miracle happened right before our eyes. Thousand let him trim his back feet. Thousand has been very touchy about those back feet the whole two years we've had him (Thousand has been worked with day after day over those two years by L.T. and I trying to get him to trust us to lift and hold those back feet, but with only limited success.) Understand though, our farrier is a very good with the horses and very patient with us and our boys. Thousand gave him control of those feet after only one try to pull away. Of course LT was at Thousand's head the whole time feeding him treats and saying what a good boy he was being.
Shunka was not so trusting and wanted to zero in on the farrier's bottom when he bent over to pick up his back feet but all in all he was good too. I had him show one of his tricks when he was done. The farrier told me I had him trained good.
Pony, who we hoped to at least get to hold his front feet up long enough to get trimmed, also fell under our farrier's spell and got all four feet trimmed. I am so grateful to have found such a good man to work my horses' feet. Not all farriers are like this I am told. My daughter had one for her horse that struck the horse when he moved. Boy that would not go over at all with me or my boys and certainly not with my husband and his boy. But our farrier would never do that so I don't have to worry.
Another good thing yesterday was our youngest daughter who is really interested in all animals go to see how the horses feet were trimmed. She said she was surprised he didn't check their legs more. I told her that his job is their "fingernails" and nothing else. 
Another great big RED LETTER DAY!
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