WHEN YOU LOOK through your horseshoeing library, you are bound to find some guides to various hoof problems: maybe something lighter in the way of personal farrier accounts, and definitely a number of textbooks that you will never throw away. Mike W. Ross and Sue J. Dyson have recently published the latest textbook that needs to find a home on your bookshelf — Diagnosis and Management of Lameness in the Horse.

JUST AS WITH any other job, there are surely those frustrating days when you ask yourself, “Why did I get myself into this?”