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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Does it hurt when you clip your nails?
A hoof is basically a big nail. Just don’t go too deep and damage the actual foot.
Our nails are also thin enough that they flex and pass pressure onto our finger very easily. Hooves don’t flex
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