Wadsworth therefore painted out the feline paw and replaced it with a quieter hoof, gray in color and lightly bifurcated.

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As dawn broke, however, there was agitation throughout the county as word quickly spread of the discovery of a trail of hoof prints (some say cloven), two inches wide and about eight inches apart in the snow stretched in a more-or-less straight line for over a hundred miles.

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Not just any foot, either (although, also, not a robotic one), as this hoof belongs to something called a Nodosaur.

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Before they set hoof onto the snow they have to undergo a change of shoes, a feat made possible by farrier Christian Lampert, who replaces regular shoes with a set containing winter grips and a unique layer of silicone to prevent snow sticking to hooves.

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Mr Rajoy, more worried by a recession that has left a quarter of Spaniards out of work, had been expected to hoof the idea into the long grass.

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Thus, anyone looking to purchase the device must either order on-line (and wait 2-4 weeks for delivery) or hoof it on down to your "local" Apple store which could be a state (or two) away.

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To fit it to a horse you warm it up to soften it, and mould it around the animal's hoof.

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Why should Mr Orban and Mr Ponta take lectures from an organisation that has been rewriting its own rules on the hoof, tampering with sovereignty without much care for voters and blithely ditching promises made only a few years ago?

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The company blamed media coverage of the hoof-and-mouth disease plaguing European cattle farmers for part of the decline, coupled with a surplus of both beef and pork for a decline in exports to Japan and South Korea, where it had strong sales last year.

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