High Performance Hooves

EasyCare's Dealer of the Month for September, 2008 - highperformancehooves.com

It's stories like the one below that make us proud of our dealers and team members. It makes us realize what a difference people (and boots) can make in the lives of horses. This was sent to us by Q. Hart of High Performance Hooves:

Dawn Merrill (Team Easyboot Member), Jay DeHart (Team Easyboot Member and Easycare Dealer) and myself, also a Team Easyboot Member spent yesterday afternoon trimming and booting four horses that were obviously abused. They were confiscated by our local Sheriffs department from the owner and brought to the Bitterroot Humane Society in Hamilton, Montana. When we got there the vet was there making these guys more comfortable.

It all started when Dawn and I went for a local trail ride here in the valley on Friday, August 1st. Seven miles in we came upon a downed horse that was left to die on the trail. After failed attempts by both Dawn and I we decided to go get help. Dawn and a neighbor rode back the next day and after over ten hours were able to get the horse to walk out of the mountains (with the comfort of Dawn's Bares). Note: The owner was then found and the three additional horses removed from his care.

The Humane Society was shocked and so grateful to Easycare for their generosity in donating the boots for these horses. NONE of the employees knew what we were putting on their feet and asked a lot of questions about the boots. I know this will open more doors for horses and their owners as for an option to shoeing and rehabilitation.

— Q. Hart