As someone who has their nails done a lot, I can definitely feel at least minor discomfort with the filing and when I’ve had a hole drilled in the nail for dangly nail art. I find it incredible how the horses don’t seem to feel a thing when they’re having straight up iron nails hammered into their feet/toenail. And the scraping away of the fleshier part of the foot has got to be at the least uncomfortable. And when they are practically searing the hoof with the hot horseshoe. Do horses just have no nerves in their feet?
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Think of it like piercing the white part of your fingernail when it’s long. You can’t feel your actual nail, but if you were to pierce it further back it’d go through your finger.
Kind of the same thing for horses, the part of the hooves that the nails are driven into is like the white part of your fingernail, there’s no nerves or anything to feel with until you get further up the hoof
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