CHAPTER Y. 



BAD TO SHOE. 



Like most other habits to which horses are subject, that 

 of resisting to have the feet taken up and submitted to re- 

 straint for shoeing, is caused by carelessness, or ignorant, 

 bad treatment. By the use of a Httle patience and tact, it 

 is rarely that even very sensitive colts cannot be made to 



Fig. 1~6. — As a vicious liorse will sometimes act while being shod. 



submit the feet to be handled and pounded upon as de- 

 sired ; and once done, unless there is some special cause 

 for disturbance, it can always be done. It is true there is 

 occasionally a young horse that is naturally so wild and 

 vicious as to resist all ordmary good management in the 

 effort to take up and handle the feet ; but with our present 

 methods of treatment, even these cases submit readily to 

 control in a short time, so that the management of even 

 the worst of these cases is not at all really difficult. 



