Beckie Mabbutt

Here are a sequence of pictures that are a bit tricky to explain but here goes.

This is Pete a Lamanitic miniature shetland. Firstly he has grown very long feet, been on box rest and has been so sore he couldn't walk the width of his stable. An important part of his history is he also had locking stifle surgery on both hinds a few years ago.

Since his lack of exercise he seems to have lost the tension in the flexor tendons (tendons that run down the back of the leg) on his hind legs and worse on the off hind. He ended up not being able to put his feet flat on the floor his toes were off the ground and he was walking severely on the outside of the hind feet too.

I was all ready to try gluing a shoe on to help him but when I arrived the laminitis had hugely improved and he was a lot more mobile his hind legs had started to strengthen so I ended up just trimming him. I did take a lot off though.

I've added red arrows below to make it clearer the gap between the ground and foot.

Here is the leg after trimming looking quite a bit straighter.