Farrier Day Scheduled

My poor farrier. He is a saint to put up with all of my animals. I told him I'd bought a donkey. He asked if I was trying to acquire animals for a nativity scene. :-)

My poor farrier has to deal with everything. He has to deal with Sam the draft, saddle horse with flat feet that require shoes (King), inexperienced horses (Chaos), all the way down to ponies. Now he is going to tackle Longhorn the donkey. I warned him about Longhorn's skis for hooves. My hope was that Longhorn would be friendly by the time I had my poor farrier come out. But it's only been in the last week or so that I've made a break through with Longhorn and that's only because of treats. I think it helps that Jimmy is next to him.

So we have an appointment for this Saturday at 1:30 for my poor farrier to look at King's feet and to trim Longhorn's hooves. We will be tranquilizing Longhorn with Rompum (sp?). It's a fairly hefty duty tranquilizer. I need to call the vet to find out the lead time to make sure that my farrier isn't in the middle of a trim when the tranq wears off. I'm not about to let my farrier get his head knocked off because of one of my animals.

Keep your fingers crossed that all goes well on Saturday.