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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Horses have nerves in there feet that is called a fork kinda looks like a v with a notch into it which is very sensitive and has blood flow but the rest of it is basically just keratin the same stuff that is your fingernails so basically when a maréchal does you’re horse he’s basically just cutting his nails and putting nails through his nails so basically no pain is put onto the horse. Horses actually enjoy getting there hooves trimmed and shoed since there hooves don’t get eroded has they prance around so it helps them even them out so they don’t have joint pain
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