Amos is looking really good and is doing very well. It's a little hard to tell because the weather has turned vile and no one was precisely "photo ready", but you can still see a lovely horse under the mud:)
Amos is really coming out of his shell and his true personality, both quirky and charming, is coming out. He got a couple of apple flavored treats along the way and the whole time I was working on his feet, he was rhythmically slurping his tongue trying to get every smidgen of flavor out of each treat - like a kid with a lollipop. I've never seen a horse get so much out of so little and he had me cracking up while I was working on him. Silly boy.
Someone (Rebecca??) asked me if there was something odd about his hind legs. The answer is: sort of. He is a bit sickle hocked, which basically means that there is a little more forward curve in his hocks than is ideal....
...and his left hind bows out just a bit.
Technically speaking, these are conformation flaws.
Do they matter?
Since this horse is in his mid twenties, is completely sound, extremely fit and has literally thousands of hard-working miles on these legs, I sure don't think so.
Dave sent me a photo of Amos from before he bought him....
More about the feet coming up since I got off on a tangent with this post.....
There's form and then function. I guess he's proved the function despite form.
ReplyDeleteMay God bless the man who rescued Amos and is giving him a good life now. I hope a surprise is waiting for the man who worked Amos into his former condition---and then would have simply shipped him.
ReplyDeleteAmos looks starved in that last photo. He looks much better now. I love his story.
ReplyDeleteHe looks like a hard working horse. I am glad he can enjoy retirement now!
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