For years, Coty, an 18 hand Belgian draft horse, suffered from intermittent abscesses, causing lameness and severe coffin bone rotation. After trying traditional shoeing methods that failed to provide relief, farrier Marvin Howard suggested Coty try Easy’s Slipper®, a therapeutic glue-on slipper that provides shock absorption and vibration dissipation to improve joint and bone health.
Ben and JoEllen Van Gundy jumped at the opportunity to try a glue-on horseshoe that might provide some relief and therapeutic benefit. Coty has been wearing Easy’s Slipper® for about six months now and seeing great improvement. He is now able to put weight on both front feet and is out grazing every day. Ben and JoEllen are thrilled that he is “comfortable, mobile, grazing and eating normally,” they said.
“Coty doesn’t seem to be in any pain,” said Ben. “And we attribute that to Easy’s Slipper®. We believe that Easy’s Slipper® has extended his life and improved his quality of life dramatically, and we are very grateful to Sue Blair and her company.”
The slippers stay on Coty’s hooves for six weeks at a time, in the many different environmental conditions of the Van Gundy’s Rushville, Ohio farm. Conditions have varied from cold, snow, wet, rainy and muddy, and the slippers have stayed on. The Van Gundy’s farrier also notes that the slippers are very easy to apply.
“We are so happy that Coty is doing so well in his slippers,” said Sue Blair, founding CEO of Advanced Equine Comfort. “He now has relief from abscesses and the reduction of his chronic pain has allowed him to be a happier horse. I feel lucky to get to work with horses like Coty every day and provide them this sort of relief.”