HALTER PULLING. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



This is a disagreeable habit that horses very easily 

 acquire when they are not properly hitched the first 

 few times. Once started to breaking straps there is 

 increased inclination to do so until the habit becomes 

 fixed. A horse subject to this habit may stand all 

 right when not excited, but will be ready to almost 

 break his neck in the attempt to pull loose, should a 

 piece of paper or a sudden sound come before him. 

 It is easy enough to hitch a horse so that he cannot 

 get loose, but the difficulty is, in bad cases, to prevent 

 and break up the habit, so there will be no inclinatioa 

 to repeat it. About the only plan that people know for 

 hitching their colts so they cannot get away is, to put 

 on them a heavy halter, so heavy that it would be im- 

 possible for them to break it if they were hitched t© 

 it with the other end, by the traces. While this will 

 work all right upon some colts, it is a very improper 

 way of hitching, for others. I have known of colta 

 pulling so hard upon halters as to make the neck stiff. 



