. How to handle and educate vicious horses. TRAINING THE HORSE. 75 fly, he receives punishment, and that when he looksyou in the face he is treated well and rewarded. Theintelligence of any colt is always sufficient to perceivethis, and in fifteen to thirty minutes he will follow youaround like a dog. As he will feel that you are hissuperior and master, he will show no desire to kick. What the fingers are to a man, the nostrils are to ahorse; and any object that seems to occasion a feelingof fear in the horse you should slowly either take himto or bring up to him, and permit him to nose around
. How to handle and educate vicious horses. TRAINING THE HORSE. 75 fly, he receives punishment, and that when he looksyou in the face he is treated well and rewarded. Theintelligence of any colt is always sufficient to perceivethis, and in fifteen to thirty minutes he will follow youaround like a dog. As he will feel that you are hissuperior and master, he will show no desire to kick. What the fingers are to a man, the nostrils are to ahorse; and any object that seems to occasion a feelingof fear in the horse you should slowly either take himto or bring up to him, and permit him to nose aroundit and smell it until he is satisfied it is harmless. For. FOR A HALTER-PULLER. instance, before making any attempt to put on thehalter, take it in your left hand and let him smell it;then buckle it on over his neck. Always be very calmand quiet in your manner, and talk softly to the horse,which goes a great way towards getting him accus-tomed to your presence. If, after the halter is on, the colt endeavors to pullaway, my theory is to circumvent him by a littlestrategy; that is, if you can call it such. Take a com-mon clothes-line rope and make a large slip-loop knotaround the body, drawing it moderately tight, andpass the end up between the front legs through the J6 HOW TO EDUCATE HORSES. ? halter. The reason for doing this is of course veryapparent. He cannot understand how anything canpull the hind part of his body and his head at the sametime; and on feeling the strain behind, he will go for-ward and thus you will accomplish your object with-out being compelled to use force. Taking this rope inthe right hand, and standing directly in f
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