hey dear :) I could bring up sources about shoes hurting I horses, I was asked about bandages though. I do not really understand how posting a photo with an observation I and several others made competes with me calling out animal abuse. I am incredibly sorry for my grammar mistake, though. I am not a native english speaker and sometimes my utter uneducated self slips through.
I could also bring up several sources in which shoes are proven to help horses. I don’t think to date that there are any non biased studies on shoes causing issues. There is, however, a very popular one with a doctored photo of a horse viewed through a thermo sensor and they made the shod foot completely dead of heat, essentially. That one has been proven to be fake and it’s the most common argument against shoes.
It’s lovely you’re willing to find studies for the shoes issue(fyi- my shoes post wasn’t even about you), but refuse to find the studies to support your claim that boots cut off circulation. Maybe because that is an inaccurate claim and you know you cannot prove it? It’s incredibly dangerous to claim that something is 100% fact and call it abusive when you have nothing to prove it as such.
I realize you’re not a native English speaker, I saw you’re from Germany, however, that doesn’t excuse you from making accusations (if you aren’t sure of what I was getting at, you could’ve asked rather than saying I was shutting you down or whatever) nor does it excuse you from the horrendous manner you chose to handle yourself in when commenting on my gif set. You don’t have to be fluent in English to know that cussing someone out is incredibly rude.
Now, if you’re willing to look up studies rather than just saying no and calling those who ask for them educated, I would love to see the study that proves that boots are harmful