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Tauna, Seven and I would just like to thank you for all the great trims. I got Seven at the end of 2008 and had you pull her shoes as soon as possible and measure her for Easy Boot Epics; she wore those for a while, but with good conditioning, I've been able to drop the boots unless it's on very different terrain from what we usually ride. Seven appreciates your calm manner and minimal (non-invasive) trims. You have a good way with horses. She's never tender after a trim and her hooves look the way they should, very natural. I can't say enough good things about keeping a horse barefoot. I think it takes a bit more work in the beginning, but if you take the time up front, I believe it will really pay off in the long run. Seven's a gaited horse and her gaits are better barefoot, maybe because she's just more comfortable. I never have to worry about a loose shoe or slipping on pavement - even muddy slides are easier. And the boots have gotten so good, which makes it that much easier. We also very much appreciate that you keep to your schedules. Thanks again, Lisa and Seven

Tauna has worked wonders on my Copper Kid. He is a Tennessee Walking Horse (and POA -- TWH stallion escaped!) and I brought him home when he was 3-1/2, he was barefoot then. Our terrain here in Woodside is much rockier than he was used to and after trying to keep him barefoot for almost a year, I gave up, he was too sensitive (or so I thought). Since Tauna has been trimming him for the last few months, each week he is getting better and better. Favoring the soft edges of the trails is not only frustrating but can be very dangerous, he is doing less of this each time we ride. His feet are not chipping as much as they did in the beginning of our barefooting as they are growing stronger and stronger, the trims are keeping him aligned. He is using boots in the front for part of our rides and completely barefoot now on the latter half, we ride for many, many hours each week. Tauna has a wonderful demeanor with Copper, is incredibly knowledgeable on all aspects of hooves and hoof care. P

How to strike a balance between gushing and facts is important. If I were to say that my horse, Sedante, a Peruvian Paso, has a rare psychic ability to carve out his own destiny by first finding me, willing co-dependent and hand maiden, and then in his golden retirement years, finding Tauna, less the co-dependent, and highly persevering, you might accuse me of arrested ‘new-age’ development. We arrived at Tauna’s boarding facility in 2003. Sedante and I had been riding the trails of Henry Cowell and other regional parks for about 15 years. Through those years Sedante had been housed in paddocks or pasture stays, all tolerable, but not optimal, especially for a Peruvian: cresty, heavy on the forelegs, ‘easy keeper.’ He’d been shod on the front only with all the usual experiments: set back, set forward, pads, wedges, high-heeled creations to ‘relieve’ the tendons. On the next checkup the vet gave him a diagnosis of glucose-intolerance, low-thyroid, probable laminitis. I didn’t know it at the time, but given that prognosis, Sedante was in the right place at the right time. I soon found that Tauna’s idea of care was different from what I’d been used to. Grass hay, free fed, and it was she who volunteered, in an effort to control his weight, soaking/draining the hay to eliminate sugar. I ‘baggied’ his supplements, but Tauna made sure that he got his daily bucket (with the crucial Thyrol-L). He’d been barefoot for over a year, and his hooves needed serious rehabilitation—a trim every four weeks. His hooves were fragile and the spring of 2004 brought two abscesses. Gradually, the slow process of growing new hoof started, and the trimming schedule continued. When he had ‘ouchy’ periods, it was Tauna who put on and took off his ‘Old Mac’ boots. Although now we live in the shadow of a laminitic breakout, he has been basically sound for six years under Tauna’s care. Now we’re in the opposite weight cycle that comes with age and Cushing’s syndrome (but no longer is hypo-thyroidic). We are trying to put weight on Sedante. We tried the medical route, but have found more success with diet and nutritional supplements, i.e., chaste tree berry, beet pulp (which Tauna soaks/drains), plus grass hay, upon demand. I’ve learned that Tauna has an open mind; she gravitates toward research, but also has an intuitive sense about the mind, body, and spirit of our equine friends. I’ve had a series of health issues since 2007, and I can truly say that without Tauna’s daily care and willingness to always put the horse first and go the extra distance, that Sedante might have become a goner, or a cripple, long before this. Our partnership in the pasture is a remarkable gift. Colleen & Sedante

How to strike a balance between gushing and facts is important. If I were to say that my horse, Sedante, a Peruvian Paso, has a rare psychic ability to carve out his own destiny by first finding me, willing co-dependent and hand maiden, and then in his golden retirement years, finding Tauna, less the co-dependent, and highly persevering, you might accuse me of arrested ‘new-age’ development.
We arrived at Tauna’s boarding facility in 2003. Sedante and I had been riding the trails of Henry Cowell and other regional parks for about 15 years. Through those years Sedante had been housed in paddocks or pasture stays, all tolerable, but not optimal, especially for a Peruvian: cresty, heavy on the forelegs, ‘easy keeper.’ He’d been shod on the front only with all the usual experiments: set back, set forward, pads, wedges, high-heeled creations to ‘relieve’ the tendons. On the next checkup the vet gave him a diagnosis of glucose-intolerance, low-thyroid, probable laminitis. I didn’t know it at the time, but given that prognosis, Sedante was in the right place at the right time.
I soon found that Tauna’s idea of care was different from what I’d been used to. Grass hay, free fed, and it was she who volunteered, in an effort to control his weight, soaking/draining the hay to eliminate sugar. I ‘baggied’ his supplements, but Tauna made sure that he got his daily bucket (with the crucial Thyrol-L). He’d been barefoot for over a year, and his hooves needed serious rehabilitation—a trim every four weeks. His hooves were fragile and the spring of 2004 brought two abscesses. Gradually, the slow process of growing new hoof started, and the trimming schedule continued. When he had ‘ouchy’ periods, it was Tauna who put on and took off his ‘Old Mac’ boots. Although now we live in the shadow of a laminitic breakout, he has been basically sound for six years under Tauna’s care.
Now we’re in the opposite weight cycle that comes with age and Cushing’s syndrome (but no longer is hypo-thyroidic). We are trying to put weight on Sedante. We tried the medical route, but have found more success with diet and nutritional supplements, i.e., chaste tree berry, beet pulp (which Tauna soaks/drains), plus grass hay, upon demand.
I’ve learned that Tauna has an open mind; she gravitates toward research, but also has an intuitive sense about the mind, body, and spirit of our equine friends. I’ve had a series of health issues since 2007, and I can truly say that without Tauna’s daily care and willingness to always put the horse first and go the extra distance, that Sedante might have become a goner, or a cripple, long before this. Our partnership in the pasture is a remarkable gift.

Colleen & Sedante