>     BUT, we now have a little problem ..... he does NOT
 > like the blacksmith putting shoes on his front hooves ....
...
 >  .... but it's like he gets
 > bored with the idea of his feet being pounded on (putting
 > in the nails) and he starts to wiggle, jump around and all
 > in all act STUPID .
 
Don't mind me, just thinking out loud again.
 
What problem, if any, might show up because of the concussion of the nails 
being driven in?
 
I had a bad tooth that didn't hurt at all -- except during my root canal 
work, when my dentist put the dental dam in and put the clamp on.  Something 
about the way the clamp went on put pressure on the nerve.  Heck of a way to 
find out the tooth was still alive! 
 
Could he be a little ouchy somehow?  So that when he walks, and his weight is 
distributed over the whole hoof, it doesn't bother him, but when the farrier 
is driving in a nail, the point-source concussion from the nail is bugging 
him?
 
Of course, it could just be that he's being a brat, too.
 
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