56 THE HORSE OWNEr's 



VICIOUS BITERS. 



If he is a stallion, with the confirmed habit of biting 

 and striking, at your approach, we can give you but little 

 encouragement. We would not think it worth while to 

 attempt to break him, but would advise you to castrate 

 him at once. However, we have bought several bad 

 biting stallions, and effectually cured them of the vice 

 while in our possession ; but, on the approach of a strang- 

 er, they would show more or less viciousness. I have 

 known owners of such horses to whip them until they 

 would tremble in every joint, and were (seemingly) al- 

 most ready to drop, but have never, in a single case, 

 known them cured by such treatment. In twenty min- 

 utes he is as determined as ever to renew the combat; he 

 seems unable to resist the temptation ; I sometimes think 

 it a species of insanity. If you have a mare or a gelding 

 in possession of this vice, you can easily cure it. Place 

 the small loop of the cord round the under jaw, with run- 

 ning loop over the neck ; have the small loop fit so close 

 around the jaw that it cannot spit it out, also under the 

 to.igue ; the other end carry out of the stall, and hang on 

 the peg where you hang your harness. Now, as you step 

 up to the stall, take hold of the cord with one hand, the 

 other, place on his quarter^ and say, " stand over "; if he 

 attempts to frisk or bite at you, give him a sudden pull, 

 and say, " take care, sir !" then pass into the stall ; if he 

 again attempts to bite at you, give him another sharp 

 pull, saying, " what are you doing sir !" Give him a few 

 lessons of this kind, and a cure is preformed. 



TO SHOE A HORSE THAT IS VICIOUS. 



We care not how vicious a horse may be when he is being 

 shoJ. Wd think we can make the worst of the kind stand 



