280 HALTBK-PULLING. 



is an inclination to resist, or pull back. If the halter is a 

 rough, hard, rope one, with the slipping-noose back of the 

 jaw, when jDulled upon the pain inflicted will increase this 

 tendency to res-ist and pull away. (See cut 201.) In the 

 same manner when a colt is tied, and his freedom restrained, 

 there is a natural inclination to resist and pull back ; and 

 if after a violent struggle the halter is broken, the habit of 

 pulling is learned. Usually, the younger the colt the more 



Fig. 203. — As the colt is liable to break loose when hitched 

 in the usual manner. 



stubborn will be the inclination to pull, and often he will 

 struggle so desj^erately as to throw himself down. Not 

 only this, but there is danger of straining and injuring the 

 neck by the violence of the jerking and pulling. I have 

 known of colts pulling so hard as to make the neck stiff, 

 deforming and spoiling them ; and in a few cases even kill- 

 ing themselves by dislocating the neck. Yet there was 

 practically no better remedy in use than to hitch by. a hal- 

 ter so strong that he could not break it. The point was to 

 be able to so hitch the colt as to induce the least inclina- 



