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still calls shoes “a necessary evil”,«. necessary because people are now doing things with horses that the animals were never meant to do. A horse’s foot evolved running on grass, not on hardsurfaced roads. “No horse in his right mind would go^ jumping over fences, chasing after foxes,” she said.

“There are three kinds of horses—ornery, scared and nice.” Recognizing a nice horse presents no problem at all but learning to tell the difference between ornery and scared takes time and practice, Sheree maintained. The -two categories require two entirely different approaches and if the farrier confuses the types, problems with frightened animals are aggravated, she explained.

Sheree’s careful and she takes her job seriously. "If something goes wrong with a horse’s foot, he’s not good for much.”

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