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They/Them | Hoofcare practitioner, LIMA training, classical dressage and eventing rider, ethical tack enthusiast, life with a chronically mystery lame TB
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I am in an existential crisis because I realized I kind of hate my barn job (mostly the time of day I have to do it because turn in is so late) but I don’t have enough clients to trim full time and I don’t know what to do🙃🙃🙃🙃

I just love very suddenly having the worst period of my life and having to ask someone else to take over evening chores for me when I was already there. I also had to pull over on the highway cause I thought I was gonna puke and was dizzy from pain. Woohoo

GI appointments are so weird cause when have I ever had to talk about my poop that much 💀

I am so so grateful to finally have gotten my anxiety meds figured out. Busprione knocks out the mental symptoms, propranolol knocks out the physical symptoms. It’s pretty amazing

Something shitty about my anxiety: I literally get anxiety about taking the medication that stops my anxiety🤦‍♀️

1/5 Yesterday, Zoey had a new vet that specializes more in dental check her out. Turns out she has pretty severe malocclusion that is likely chronic and has been causing her pain in her mouth and TMJ for years. It’s bad enough they couldn’t correct it all without shortening her teeth too much-

I think we should normalize screenshotting asinine (especially sexist) comments on fb made by married men and sending the screenshots to their wife

Dog sitting for people I know is my favorite type of job. Super chill, just get to have my life resolve around some doggos for awhile. Without the stress of not knowing the owners very well or having aggressive dogs an owner was not upfront about .. let’s me catch up on webinars too

We also had a pretty big crowd at the march through downtown Saint Paul! It’s always so beautiful to see so many people coming together. I almost cry every time I get to these rallies and marches, because it is just so impactful to see how many people in my community care and are fighting!

Some favorites from the May Day rally+march at the Minnesota state capitol!

My mom’s getting an endoscopy today, and it feels so strange to be the one that they call to confirm I’m picking her up and that I’m gonna babysit her for 24hrs. Role reversal moment

Okay, apparently she doesn’t hate ME (yet, after 3 weeks of this who knows) she just hates when I grab her halter while she’s wearing it cause that’s the precursor to meds. She still comes up to me tho and wants post dinner snuggles which is a good sign

Zoey very much hates me and everyone who does chores rn after starting her trial of EPM meds. 42ml orally once a day and it cant be mixed with anything tasty and she has to fast an hour before and an hour after so I can’t even give her a treat after the syringe😭 sorry Zoey

Thank you Minnesota, now I can go back to physical therapy, I can get my dental, orthodontics and my eye care covered, I can go to therapy. Hurray!

Over 6 months, 1 denied application, but I finally have medicaid. And minnesotas medicaid programs in specific are really amazing so this will help a ton. Still need to apply for financial assistance and a hardship form for medical bills from last year, but at least I have good coverage now.

I’ve been giving zoey chin scratches after she eats dinner the past couple weeks. It’s such a small thing but it’s actually improved our relationship so much? She went from being a bit standoffish about scratches a lot of the time to today starting to offer specific spots on her face! It’s so cool!!

I just saw someone say, make America safe again, and vote brad schimel in the same sentence. Fucking delusion. Or maybe it’s just self admittance that they give 0 shits about victims of sexual abuse and now they can say it publically without a care.

I put Zoey back on custom equine nutrition copper and zinc instead of the coco hoof pellets that have copper and zinc included cause it’s like 1/3rd of the price. I switched her to coco hoof after she wasn’t eating her supplements in the fall, but turns out she just hates cold water in her feed.

So, last summer Zoey got pretty bad bug bites under her barrel. This year I was thinking of getting her a fly sheet, but I’m worried that it’ll prevent mutual grooming etc when she’s already been blanketed all winter. What would you do? Maybe use a big repellent balm and see if that’s enough?

I get this one, only difference is I LIVE IN A HOUSE 😂🤣😅

I didn’t check the date yesterday and missed it was Zoey’s birthday until the day after😭 good thing she’s a horse and has no idea when her birthday is

Apparently my coping strategy for the world falling apart is baking a bunch of random stuff on a Sunday night. I have so far made pumpkin muffins, raspberry scones, and lemon bars. All without eggs cause I forgot to buy them at the store today.

Geese in the kwik trip parking lot is so Midwest core

I find out in 9 days whether I get the PHCP scholarship. Everyone cross their fingers for me cause this would completely change my life and actually give me the ability to afford to continue furthering my hoofcare education

Yesterday Zoey once again insisted on chin scratches before I put her away. During this she also rested her head on my shoulder. This horse gives me such massive boosts of seratonin. I hope this becomes a daily routine!

The mud in the paddocks froze again and there’s no snow cover. BUT Zoey seems pretty much completely fine on the ground, not sore at all! Which is insane when in the beginning of the cold weather when the mud froze a few months ago, she was just crippled.

Today after putting Zoey back into her paddock, I started walking away and she just followed me along the whole fence line and just watched me till I was out of sight. She also was very insistent on chin scratches before i left which is rare. Just the absolute sweetest mare ever I love her so much🥺

With the new severe federal agriculture funding cuts, I say farmers and anyone with a tractor band together and storm DC with tractors of manure like they did in France

PSA. Do not get in a hot bath after applying icy hot at work a couple hours earlier.

I hate living in the city on Saint paddy’s day right next to the street that does the paddy’s day parade for my city. So many drunk people running out in the road