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P eriodically we must remove Certified Practioners from our "Locate a Practitoner" listing if we have evidence that they are trimming below our standards and/or not to the guidelines. When this happens, the CP is contacted and also removed from the website listing until they have taken action to improve their understand or their trimming and then demonstrate it. If someone states on their personal website that they are Certified by the AANHCP and you do not seem them listed, you owe it to your horses to verify their credentials. Please be careful about taking any advice on trimming from blogs! A lot of really bad advice is given each time we take a look at these blogs! Our best advice is to go to the Locate a Practitioner listing and use a certified Natural Hoof Care practitioner. Your horse will appreciate it. 
O n May 18, Jaime Jackson had the opportunity to tour the Houston Mounted Police Department's Mounted Patrol Unit facilities, the second largest in the U.S., where all 38 horses are now barefoot! Back in 2004, Sr. Police Officer Gregory Sokoloski first explored different barefoot trimming methods and was given approval to begin removing the shoes of some of the more seriously lame horses. Although they describe their initial methods as a bit 'too aggressive,' they found their way to natural hoof care by 2005 when Sr. Police Officers Scott Berry and Danny Pryor joined Officer Sokoloski at an AANHCP workshop conducted by former member Pete Ramey. The next year, Berry and Pryor enrolled in the AANHCP Natural Hoof Care Training Program and became Certified Practitioners in 2009.
Pictured from left are Sr. Officer and AANHCP CP Scott Berry, Jaime Jackson, AANHCP CP Eddie Drabek, Sr. Officer Gregory Sokoloski, Sr. Office and AANHCP CP Danny Pryor and Lt. Randall Wallace, who was ultimately responsible for allowing the officers to bring natural hoof care and natural horsekeeping practices to the Unit. A huge congratulations to all involved! You can read more about their journey in an article written by Scott Berry, available on his Facebook page.
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