And people wonder why their horses are foundering

Wow it's started already this morning. my very first customer to come in the store buys some grass seed and straw then happens to notice the logo on my work shirt has a barrel racer above it. Ding ding ding it occurs to him that I am a horse person so he begins to ask me questions. Now this I don't mind as I sad before I'm all about educating people as to proper care of their equine family. Well this guy starts asking me about feeds and hay. So I tell him about the feeds we caryy and hay we supply. He wants to know the price of Alfalfa so I tell him and he says ok I'll take a bale of that and a bag of the mare & foal feed. "Cool" I think he's got a mommma and baby that he's really taking care of. I ask him what kind of horses he's raising and he says "Oh I dont have any babies, this is for my 8 year old pony and her 18 year old pasture mate. My vet reccomended I feed them this twice a day. The pony is foundered and the 18 year old is super skinny" SCREEEEEEECCHHH my helping instinct comes to a hault. WHAT??? Feed a foundered horse a 16% protein 6% crude fat feed AND alfalfa hay... what kind of vet is this????? The guy continues babling on about how his poor pony is lame and he can't understand why she wont get better when the vet reccomended something that is supposed to work. I stop him right there and say ok first off you need a new vet, no vet in their right mind if going to tell you to feed a hay and grain both so high in protein twice a day to a foundered pony. Secondly pull that pony off of the pasture, STOP giving it that feed and hay and get it some help. Call a new vet to come examine the pony , call a farrier to do corrective trimming and keep it up todate on it's trim. I also reccomended to feed it a supplement called Remission which is geared towards horses and ponies that have foundered or are prone to foundering. The all natural ingredients in it help the symptoms to go away and also keep them from having a flare up. I calmly explained that all he was doing was feeding the pony to death "Really? ... I'm killing her by feeding that much????" So I gave him the run down of founder and it's consequences if left unchecked. he looked at me and said "I need the number of a good vet and farrier" So I gave him my vet's number and my farriers number. He bought a tub of the remission and some B-L to help ease her pain until the vet got there. Said he was going home putting her in their round pen and calling Doc right up. I'm atleast thankful he wasn't starving the horse to death......... he was just killing her with love and kindness. And AND he's taking responsibility and FIXING his mistakes. THANK YOU LORD for allowing this man some common sense!!!!!!!! I know in yesterday's blog I ranted about folks not feeding properly, now on the complete opposite end of that are the people who feed too well..... how can there be such extremes????? Don't get me wrong I'd much rather see a horse with a huge belly than none at all, it is after all easier to work fat off than put it on. But why can't peple use some common sense and thought when feeding horses? They need a BALANCED diet too.... well let's see what the rest of the day brings... yall might be having an update!