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 are not humans; our nails are very thin and serve a different purpose compared to a horse’s
The hooves do not have nerve endings running through their depth; the feeling sensation is more like a haircut or nail clipping than what you’d imagine of spikes driven into your nails
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