"The Old Soft Shoe"

Here is Pookey Bear and his good buddy Joe, standing outside La Mesa Equine, where Joe and Dr. W hit upon the magic solution that has given Pookey a new lease on life (at least for today!)

Joe is holding in his hand the device that Pookey now has glued to his formerly painful right front foot. It is, of all things, a rubber shoe.

I realize that seems like kind of a 'duh' thing to non-horse people. After all, we wear rubber shoes when we have foot pain, right?

But rubber shoes are not that typical in the horse world.

In fact, in my half century or so of living, I have never seen another horse wearing a rubber shoe!

Anyway, on Wednesday Pookey got a great trim and a shoe that looks just like this:

And for the first time in many weeks, he is virtually pain-free!

In fact, he was trying to do a bit of 'the old soft shoe' on today's walk.

Next project: try to keep Pookey from dancing around in his stall...

Oh, and bake some cookies for Joe and Dr. W!