This exactly. I was basically under him as I was wrapping the hind foot like a poultice. He had had an abscess and we were. Protecting the foot from getting any debris in the remaining tiny hole by keeping it padded with animal lintex and vet wrap.
Studiously at the horses frog:face_with_hand_over_mouth:
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Oh yes!! Right…thankfully I’m just a simple barn owner helping a child with her un wither trained horse. If only I had known about this mystical wither training my poor toe would not have been crushed to the bone.
And I guess J-Lu’s horse is considered “ un wither trained “ since he moved as the blanket was being applied, causing such Chaos.
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This scenario could have been played out at our boarding barn many times in the past… when a certain boarder would pull into the parking area and stomp towards the barn…
After a couple of incidents, we also had to put up signs at the barn doors requesting that horses be HALTERED when going to and from paddocks or the arena… as no matter how amazing your Sonny/Blaze/Dancer/Prince/Princess/Stormy/Doc is at being led from the withers or a hand on the neck or whatever/wherever… horses are still horses. No matter how well trained - even graduating magna cum laude from the Parelli University of Awesomeness or the Gawani Pony Boy Institute of Spiritual Connection or the Cavalia Symposium of Liberty and Performance Arts… because… horses.
Now that we sold the boarding barn up the hill and just have the smaller breeding/foaling/retirement barn… yes, I can lead many of the horses with just a light hand on their neck - including the main stallion. He will even stand and “stay” in the barn aisle. But horses being horses, I always opt for the safer option especially when others are around providing distractions.
Does that decrease my blanketing rating? 
ETA: I have also had my toe crunched by a 20 year old, very well trained, OTTB ex A circuit hunter who is now an excellent therapy horse with many awards to his credit in all his experiences. I had finished schooling him and we were walking up the hill out of the arena. Horses happen.
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To quote The Orange Guy:
“You’re fired!” 
But, you reminded me of the last place I boarded, 20+ years ago.
We’d just moved our horses in, came to ride & I see a paint horse loose in the yard.
Being a responsible horsepeep, I sound the Loose Horse! alarm…
Only to have BO inform me “That’s Hopi” & point out the basketball-sized swelling on mare’s knee.
Besides being ancient, this boarder could only move at a snail’s pace.
She’d earned the right to wander at will 
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This is the entire situation in a nutshell. Emotions, judgments, assumptions, preconceived notions and conclusions removed, these appear to be the facts as they are known.
OP seems very fixated on fault (seems common with kids and really a lot of people, actually). But fault for what, exactly? What are the damages? Horse got blanketed. Horse resumed life. Worker blanketed horse and moved on. All seems right with the world, no?
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Are you freakin’ kidding me?
Are you kidding me? WTH?
Nope.
Not saying these BOs were right.
But there she was, ancient mare wandering the yard by at glacial speed…
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Are you a COTH psychiatrist consulting with the other COTH psychiatrists?
What a distortion of the actual facts, which seems to support the Mean Girl narrative. You are so incredibly wrong although you are rewriting what I originally said and you’ll get support from the Mean Girls and will support them. None of you seem to recognize the actual situation that happened, because now the young woman is just a worker at the barn.
Horse just resumed life? Are you kidding? Worker just “moved on?” She’s not a worker. You don’t know what your’e talking about but you’ll say it anyway. If you read the thread, you’d know better than to post such BS. I’m sure you and others will post what you can to keep blaming me and feeling some kind of bonding in doing such crap. I’m not surprised in my decades on COTH.
So many of you are so wrong but can’t admit that. What a pile-on thread. Mean Girls on COTH. Such a perfect example.
BTW, after I started free-grazing my horse (initially because he has late-growing grass in his pasture and there is earlier growing grass around the property, he mostly doesn’t interact with other horses because he has no blooming grass in his pasture at this time and just eats the fresh grass.
He has “free-grazed” for several years. The BOs started to “free-graze” their horses ~2 years ago after rides as well. Very little drama, as at least the 3 horses are run-in mates.
By “free graze” do you mean off-lead?
If so, I hope there’s reliable perimeter fencing 
Even if they’re safely contained, not something Id ever do unless my horses, on my property.
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By free graze I mean without a halter and more recently and previously with a halter with the lead draped over the back. Yes.there is perimeter fencing and the actual free-gaze area is relatively small (3 acres around the barn?). Even if the front gate is wide open, he doesn’t leave the property. Why should he? Most horses wouldn’t. His buddies are all on the property. I have free-grazed him with the gate open many times. He’ll graze down there but has never left the property and the other horses. We’ve developed this over 3-4 years. He’s totally fine eating grass that is better than his pasture grass much of the year because of the species planted. He’s so much more interested in eating than interacting with other horses.
I see what you’re saying. I’m the only boarder who rides. I’m pretty much the only one who rides regularly besides the trainer, and we don’t overlap in time.
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I first introduced the free grazing because the BO admitted, his pasture has late-blooming grass. We worked together to map the nutrition in all of the pastures.
Sorry, your meme is inappropriate and not reflective on the situation. Horses are herd-bound. They just don’t leave a property because the “can”"
You’re wrong.
I’m guessing I know more about horse behavior than you do.
Guess all you want to quote you, back to you, “you’re wrong”.
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Hmmm…I’ve personally witnessed at least three free grazed horses just walk off a property despite all their friends still being on the property, something they routinely did enough that their owners didn’t feel the need to rush and go get them.
Three different horses, properties, and owners.
I guess my eyes were deceiving me and it didn’t really happen because horses don’t behave that way.
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Absolutely not. You’re talking about letting horses graze loose with the gate standing WIDE open?? But since Pookie is so speshul and has his 3rd degree black belt in the Carrot Stick Olympics I guess it’s fine.
The more I hear about this barn the more clear it becomes that this is not a haven of safety and smart horse keeping.
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Until they do.
I have a convenient patch of grass (growing over gravel) outside my fenceline.
My farm is just 5ac total, 3+ for barn/indoor & pastures.
A berm forms a sort of barrier between the patch & a road. Fencing is parallel to that, but the other 2 sides are wide open.
I used it to longe my Hackney Pony…
Until the day he pulled the line out of my hand & took off running.
TG, he ran the fenceline, all the way around the 3ac parcel & TGX10! came back to me.
The alternative was 2 open roads as my property is at the intersection of both.
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