CHAPTER X 

 Stable Vice 



Crib Biting — Wind Sucking — Weaving — Eating Bedding 

 — Pawing in Stable — Kicking — Biting — Tearing Rugs 

 and Bandages — Rubbing the Tail — Forge Vice. 



Whilst in the stable many horses are given to what 

 may be called " bad tricks," or show certain objection- 

 able habits. The cause of these may often be traced 

 to the fact that the animal in question has not been 

 given sufficient work to do, or as in cases of spiteful 

 kicking, to some bad treatment to which he has been 

 at one time or another subjected. Occasionally, of 

 course, the misconduct arises absolutely from inherent 

 viciousness. There is, unhappily, no royal road to 



