Excuse the view! Mary Mary, is in her thirties and yet still pretty wild. She's been living out her retirement off the Forest with her daughter Lily and gets Meals on Wheels and lots of love. Fortunately she doesn't need her feet done very often but today she was in trouble with a suspected abscess in her foot. No good calling the vet until we saw what she would let us do. I've been able to catch her in the past but have not handled her feet. Today, remarkably she allowed me to lead her out of the field, pick out her hoof, soak in a bucket of hot salty water, before attaching a poultice and a bandage. The vet has now been organised to come very shortly and I'll be there to catch her again and to keep her calm. I used clicker to persuade her to have her head-collar on and then a nice feed while she had her foot cleaned.
