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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Same reason trimming your toenails or fingernails or cutting your hair doesn’t hurt you.
Nails are not living tissue. They have no blood supply and no nerves. A horse’s hoof is just like a gigantic, thick single toenail.
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