Re: Strasser Method Question?/ Navicular

Subject:

Comments:
: : : : : : : : I'd be willing to wager that were you able to poll those horses that became room temperature after the Strasser Method was inflicted on them, you'd find that they felt the method was not good for them. Further, were you able to poll those horses who ended up in more pain, with more suffering, butchered feet, ad nasuem, I think you'd find that they didn't think the method was good for them. Ergo, your opinion that (with regard to horses)"the method is good for all horses" is pure nonsense. Which, when you think about it, sums up the Strasser Method(of Applied Hoof Butchery) quite succintly. : : Judging by the amount of licking and chewing that goes on while I trim I'd say that on the whole most horses are very happy with their feet. Some even let me know that i need to take off a couple of more mm by their action. : I use a crystal ball and Tarot cards . Works just about as well. : That licking and chewing is great stuff. Must really impress those animal's human connections, huh? Ever stop to think that that licking and chewing may be a pain response? Sort of a licking in anticipation of the pain to come, and a gnashing of teeth when it is delivered. : :: : And, do these findings have real relevance in the world of highly genetically engineered horse breeds? : : : : You think that somehow the basic skeletal structure has been change enough through a mere few 1000 yrs of breeding : Wure it has. Which is the whole point of selective breeding. : :to justify what you do. : You don't have a clue as to what I do. How do you justify what you do? : :Vet. textbooks show a ground parallel coffin bone in the skeletal pictures. Some how this fact gets lost along the way. : Drawings, pictures etal, are not necessarily drawn by anatomists and may be and often are, inaccurate(just look at the drawings in F. Strasser's books for a full complement of inaccuracies). Further, when assembling skeletons, the assembler is often not an anatomist and goes by what they think is correct, not necessarily what is correct. Dr. Deb Bennett, goes into great detail in explaining this phenomenon. Her web site is www.equinestudies.org. : Her reply on this subject is archived there, and if you are unable to find it, you could probably pose the question again. She will either answer it or direct you to where her original response is located. : : : : Tracy Raffaele : : You know Rick your continual name calling does nothing to state you case. : I've stated my position often and clearly. I choose my words carefully and intend them to do exactly what they do. I call 'em the way I see them and use the literary style that pleases me. : As I've said many times before, I used to suffer fools quite a bit, now I choose not to suffer them at all. And, since I feel that True Believers such as yourself are among the most foolish of fools(not to mention, among the most dangerous), well, you get my drift.... : :I think most of the other farriers are probably excedingly embarrassed by your trash talk. : We could ask them, but what difference would that make? : Here's a thought for you. Why don't you join the newsgroup Rec. Equestrian. After you join, post your drivel there and see what kind of reponses you get. Over there, the kid gloves come off. : : Tracy : Rick