Rehabbing Laminitis
Aug 14, 2026 · 38 min · 10 segments
Shannon Brauchli talks about rehabbing her gelding from laminitis in this case study episode.
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Aug 14, 2026 · 38 min · 10 segments
Shannon Brauchli talks about rehabbing her gelding from laminitis in this case study episode.
I had horses growing up as a kid, got out of horses, went to college, got married, had children.
As soon as my youngest was a little more self-sufficient, meaning he could drive himself and I was no longer forced to be in the carpool, my husband said, "Why don't you get a horse now?" And I immediately found the most wonderful little Arabian gelding, and he came to stay with me at a boarding barn not too far from where we lived up near, when we were up in, um, northern Virginia, near Washington, DC.
And he was just fantastic, and we had so much fun together, but it became really clear to me that there were things that I could do to improve his life.
And I had been a dog trainer, you know, during my non-horse years, and so had learned all about clicker training and positive reinforcement, and decided to restart him on that.
And part of that was mainly to do a lot of the husbandry work, and which included hoof care and things like that.
So as we were learning and going through sort of general training, I realized that, you know, wow, these feet are really interesting.
I went to several clinics, including the, I think it was the final Pete Ramey clinic before COVID shut in-person clinics down for, I guess, the duration.
And I had just, was like a sponge absorbing as much information about hoofs, hoof care, and, um, how to care for my own horse.
I found a mentor in Virginia, um, Anne Buteau, who was terrific and would come up and, you know, sort of critique my trims every quarter or so, make sure that we were on the right path, give me tips and pointers, and she was fantastic.
He didn't get a ton of turnout at the first barn, but he did, um, he did fine.
Um, didn't have any problems at that point metabolically or any signal that there was any metabolic issues going on.
He had some lameness issues, but it wasn't anything that we thought at that point in time was metabolic.
I had horses growing up as a kid, got out of horses, went to college, got married, had children.
As soon as my youngest was a little more self-sufficient, meaning he could drive himself and I was no longer forced to be in the carpool, my husband said, "Why don't you get a horse now?" And I immediately found the most wonderful little Arabian gelding, and he came to stay with me at a boarding barn not too far from where we lived up near, when we were up in, um, northern Virginia, near Washington, DC.
And he was just fantastic, and we had so much fun together, but it became really clear to me that there were things that I could do to improve his life.
And I had been a dog trainer, you know, during my non-horse years, and so had learned all about clicker training and positive reinforcement, and decided to restart him on that.
And part of that was mainly to do a lot of the husbandry work, and which included hoof care and things like that.
So as we were learning and going through sort of general training, I realized that, you know, wow, these feet are really interesting.
I went to several clinics, including the, I think it was the final Pete Ramey clinic before COVID shut in-person clinics down for, I guess, the duration.
And I had just, was like a sponge absorbing as much information about hoofs, hoof care, and, um, how to care for my own horse.
I found a mentor in Virginia, um, Anne Buteau, who was terrific and would come up and, you know, sort of critique my trims every quarter or so, make sure that we were on the right path, give me tips and pointers, and she was fantastic.
He didn't get a ton of turnout at the first barn, but he did, um, he did fine.
Um, didn't have any problems at that point metabolically or any signal that there was any metabolic issues going on.
He had some lameness issues, but it wasn't anything that we thought at that point in time was metabolic.
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