A device and method for securing an animal boot to an animal's foot is taught. The device includes a pair of handles, a securing means and a pair of jaws that are pivotally attached to the pair of handles by the securing means. When the pair of jaws are in a closed position, an open end of the animal boot is attached around the sides of the pair of jaws. Squeezing the pair of handles towards each other causes the pair of jaws to extend away from each other to an open position and also causes the pair of jaws to expand the open end of the animal boot.

A horse leg protector has a protection body. The protection body has an upper half for wrapping a metacarpal bone of a horse leg and a lower half for wrapping a sesamoid bone of the horse leg. At least one slot is formed in the upper half of the protection body and extends horizontally. The slot has two ends that are closed. The upper half of the protection body is partitioned into a first protection segment and a second protection segment by the slot. The second protection segment is bendable relative to the first protection segment for a distance between two opposite side walls of the slot to become larger or smaller.

A bandage including a front layer of mesh and rear layer of mesh embedded between a top band and a bottom band, the top band with a first elastic band with a first attachment device operative to attaching an end of the first elastic band to an end of the top band, the bottom band with a second elastic band with a second attachment device operative to attaching an end of the second elastic band to an end of the bottom band, and a first binding and a second binding joining the top band and the bottom band, the first binding enclosing a first side of the front layer of mesh and a first side of the rear layer of mesh, and the second binding enclosing a second side of the front layer of mesh and a second side of the rear layer of mesh.

Provided herein are multi-layered protective coverings, wearable multi-layered protective devices, and methods of using the multi-layered protective coverings and wearable multi-layered protective devices.

An equine boot comprising: a sole for receiving a bottom of a horse’s hoof; an upper which, in use, receives at least a portion of a wall of the hoof; and a retention means at a rear of the boot which, in use, is generally proximate a cleft of the hoof, the retention means being configured for engagement with a securing strap, which strap is securable to the boot and hoof for retaining the boot thereto.

There is also provided a self-sustainable body-cooling garment for cooling a body portion of a human or an animal adapted to use the air pumping footwear and a cooling system for cooling the human or animal's body. There is provided a footwear comprising an air pump adapted to pump air when worn by a human or an animal during a pedestrian movement and to store or direct the pumped air for use by a cooling system for cooling the pumped air and using the cooled air for cooling the human or the animal. There is also provided a cooling system comprising an air pump adapted to be embedded within a footwear and a nozzle adapted to cool air pumped using the footwear when worn by a human or animal during a pedestrian movement.

A pet-garment system including a pet-vest-assembly, one or more shoe-assemblies, and a bite-protection-collar. The pet-vest-assembly includes pet-vest and a plurality of vest-straps. The body assembly includes a vest-material, with the vest-material defined by a neck-opening, two front-leg-openings, and a rear-body-opening in functional combination. Preferably, the vest-material is puncture resistant to provide longevity and durability, and additionally water-resistant to provide additional comfort to the pet. The pet-garment system further includes a first-storage-pocket useful for storing one or more shoe-assemblies, a second-storage-pocket useful for storing pet-related accessories, a vaccination-opening useful for allowing the pet to receive vaccinations without a need to remove the pet-vest-assembly, and includes a handle useful for lifting and carrying the pet, in the preferred embodiment.

An improved shock absorbing, light-weight, thermally insulative orthotic pad designed for use in a “pad and boot” assembly for hoofed livestock. The pad is comprised of a mixture of small particles incorporated and encased in elastomeric materials. The particles have a lower density than the elastomeric materials and possess better thermally insulative properties. The pad is preferably elliptically shaped when viewed from the top or bottom, may be wedge-shaped when viewed from the side, and may include a triangular projection designed to contact a horse's frog and/or a front projection designed to cushion an animal's toe. The pad may also have side clips and toe bumper.

A boot assembly and method that simulates, in a static equine animal (stalled or hauled), the natural mechanical action of walking or other gaited exercise. The assembly has a boot, containing a shock absorbing pad that is fitted with one or more pulsing bladders disposed under or inside the shock absorbing pad. Pressuring and relaxing the pulsing bladder in the bottom of the boot rhythmically pushes against the sole and frog and against the toe of the equine hoof in much the same way that the hoof is exercised when the animal is moving. The pulsing action helps stimulate blood flow through the hoof and is beneficial to shod, injured, and transported horses. The assembly may be fitted on one or more hooves, and may be automated to provide timing and sequencing to simulate different gaits of the animal. In some aspects, the assembly is disposed in an ice boot or ice spa boot to also provide cryotherapy as well as simulated exercise.

An improved overreach boot for horse's lower legs is disclosed herein. In embodiments of the disclosed improved overreach boot, the boot has a shape that is winged by virtue of two concave indentations, such that when mounted to the leg of a horse, relatively little of the bottom surface of the boot comes into contact with the ground. This improves known boots, in which substantial portions of the lower surface contact the ground, causing the boot to pop-up or rotate. The disclosed improved overreach boot also advantageously relies on a lower protrusion to engage a cavity in a horse's hoof, which protrusion has a large, triangular cross-section to more securely engage with the horse's leg.