forehoof

My little donkey has got herself a stone bruise in her forehoof and can’t carry her load.

Sometime early in her marriage, Helen began a ritual: Each time his mount left the paddock and set his first forehoof onto the track, she would pray that the horse would see him home safely.

He couldn’t get his front hooves out of the way in time, and the toe of his hind shoe gouged into his right forehoof.

In doing so, he sheared off an inch-square hunk of his forehoof, leaving it lying on the track by the gate.

BaffertMike SmithAn abscess on his right forehoof is healing.