The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . sually kick when touchedwith pole while turning. it. This he will usually resent by kicking violently. Sim-])\y continue until all inclination to resist is overcome, sothat after being untied the muscles are so relaxed that thefeet can be taken up and handled without hi
The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . sually kick when touchedwith pole while turning. it. This he will usually resent by kicking violently. Sim-])\y continue until all inclination to resist is overcome, sothat after being untied the muscles are so relaxed that thefeet can be taken up and handled without his showing theleast resistance. Sometimes a young horse or colt willstart all right, but when tested will not go sufficiently fast toenable his control. Under such circumstances, while mov-ing touch sharply with a whip across the nose, and repeatuntil he is forced up to the point desired to compel submis- SECOND METHOD. 45 sion. The point is to bring the brain to a certain point ofinactivity and hold it there until he is helpless and sub-missive. I soon learned by experience that by turning one wayonly, the impression upon the brain after a certain pointdiminished with the continuance of the turning; and thatto maintain the effect it was necessary to turn the horsemuch faster, and even then, after a time, it would become. Fig. 39.—The first indication of submission—sulimitting to be poled. inert. To remedy this, I reversed the action by tying inthe opposite direction, which not only greatly increasedthe effect but enabled me to repeat the treatment with suc-cess to any extent. In many bad cases the horse shouldbe turned one way up to the verge of falling, then quicklyreversed, at the same time poling as before explained. Itis necessary under such circumstances to watch carefullyso as to be able at the instant there is any indication offalling, to prevent it by pulling the strap loose. The more 46 METHODS OF SUBJECTION. frequent and quickly the reversing and turning, the bett
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