My beautiful Tom Kat's future does not look to good at the moment. His front feet are extremely sore. Have the vet coming ASAP and he along with my Farrier will help me make the decision. I am praying that is will be treatable as he is only 17, although after doing lots of reading tonight and listening to what different people say, I'm not so sure.

He has a history of bad feet. I think that this has been there all along and what triggered it was getting is feet done yesterday. His front left has separation and there was a lot of "rot" in between the hoof wall and the Laminae, Farrier showed me and it was gross. His front right looked worse before he had his shoes taken off.

My wonderful riding buddy Sarah has offered use of her stables if needed. Hubby has also been great as Farrier stopped him today when driving past to tell him what was happening.

At the moment we are leaving him in his paddock, as he is still moving around. I just wish he would lie down at times, especially when he has his two front feet way out front and then he tries to rest the back one.

Mandy the Donkey was due to have her feet done today, but Farrier did not turn up - I was going to ask his opinion, although do not want to offend my farrier who has dealt with Tom for many years.