Posted by Bill Adams on September 15, 2003 at 01:15:26:
In Reply to: Re: Who's in it for the money? posted by Rick Burten on September 14, 2003 at 19:53:27:
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: : And one question, Rick, why does it upset you when someone charges a fair price for the work performed and the successful results achieved?
: : Denise
: Who said I was upset? Maybe you should go back and re-read my original post.
: Personally, I'd rather just trim. I'd go to work in my Corvette and make one hell of a lot of much "easier" money.
: See Denise, I'm not upset when someone charges a fair price but I am a follower of the Phineas T. Barnum philosophy when it comes to practitioners of the Strasser Voodoo. but you already knew that. The question more properly should be, why so defensive Denise?
: And, not that I really care, but why are you responding on a Farrier and Vets only forum? And, isn't doing that, along with belonging to the AFA, some sort of , at a minimum, moral and/or ethical abrogation of your Strasser contract?
: Inquiring minds just want to know....
: Rick
So here is my problem with Strasser et al: This barefoot thing started back in the eighties in London. The eighteen eighties.
What bothers me is what I've seen and heard about Farriers disagreing them because it would cut our livlihood. I've done the math and I would make three times the money, unless I charged what the local Strasser guy gets, then I'd make four times (without draging around thirteen hundred pounds of stuff).
Our local guy has posted flyers impuning the honesty of Farriers, which bugged me. He also said that horses who fought with Alexander the Great for fifty years, barefoot, were healthy and sound the whole fifty years. Al (the Great) died when he was thirty three years old.
I recently shod a mare that had been trimed by an owner that had garnered information from the web as to barefoot only. Within a week at proper angles and protection of wide web shoes she was moving sound and fluidly, the oppisite of how she was.
Now the idea that one can learn off the web how to care for an animal is not unresonable, but it is so often presented as easy and a chance to save money. There seems to be a crusade mentality aginst Farriers. Oh well, I feel that way aginst the IRS.
My $0.02 ($0.08 if I went barefoot),
Bill