> 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?
    Hummmmmmmmmm -- I did think about that as he gets "stupid" when Larry 
beats the nails into the hoof .... interesting as he doesn't act up when his 
back feet are beind done.
 > 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!
 > 
    OUCH!!!!!!!!  It IS a possibility.
 > 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?
    Maybe .....
 > Of course, it could just be that he's being a brat,
 > too.
    That could be too ..... he certainly was a "BRAT" when our vet floated 
his teeth last month -- he had to be sedated for the job to be done .... he 
did NOT like that at all!!
    He's so good most of the time though -- he really isn't a bad horse so 
I'm inclined to think that something is really hurting him for him to be so 
bad about it.
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