see, what I like about Kiwi's is that they're really quite a bit less suspicious of people they meet (in general, according to those I met). here, people are always watchin for the backstab or the rip-off. there, you can hang out with somebody because you're their father's brother's cousin's best-firend's former room mate, and they'll teach ya stuff if you ask nicely, like how to surf.

but any case, my aunt who lives in the mid-west is a world class trainer, and a breeder I think, of Arabian horses. I don't know who she has do her shoeing, but I'm sure if I went there and hung out with her for a while, I'd learn. I'd be able to learn how to properly groom, stable, break and probably a couple treatments of common ailments if I went down there to work in her barn for a while. sure I'd have to shovel poo for a year or so, but that'd be a fair trade-off. just tackin a shoe on a hoof isn't too hard either, it's the weighting the shoe differently that makes it complicated, but I'm sure I'd learn.