Question for Anne Tree Coley

[Anne Tree Coley]

Originally Posted by Eric Russell

OH ok! So everything was fine with your horses and you just decided you could do this yourself.

Not quite but close enough, Eric.

Originally Posted by Eric Russell

For starters let's just say you don't know me!

Well you took the words right out of my mouth. I was thinking the same thing as you were trying to tell me why I got started trimming.

The rest? I said I didn't care about that.

Originally Posted by Eric Russell

It's odd though that you're decision had nothing to do with good or bad farriery or how he acted yet you go on to tell us how drunk your farrier was. Hmmmm, ???? I just don't believe you.

You had stated that something bad happened and assumed it was the reason I began trimming hooves. I told you the bad part about my dealings with Farriers just so you'd know what really did happen that was so bad and further explained that it had nothing to do with my decision to start learning how to trim hooves.

And FYI, the real reasons for me wanting to learn to trim were:

I already had an interest in learning to do it.
My last farrier, was the best one I'd found, and he was moving further away and losing some of his clients. I was one of them. So in the months before he moved I rode with him to learn what I could by doing that and when he came here to trim my herd, he'd have me trim the ponies while he trimmed the horses and would check my work afterwards, pointing out my mistakes and watching as I fixed them. (Back then, I erred on not trimming enough and righthand syndrome.)

Believe what you want to.