C4 TREATMENT OF FEAR. 



It is seen in' the first place that it is often necessary to 

 repeat the treatment, that expecting the animal to be broken 

 of the habit by a single indirect lesson, only tends to defeat 

 success. For without ability to control the horse, every 

 attempt to force upon him the object of aversion only 

 inspires greater resistance, because taught to a still greater 

 degree to resist control, and a sense of freedom always tends 

 to increase the animal's fear of the object. Now the efforts 

 of the owner to control the horse directly in a position of 

 so great disadvantage, may produce exactly this result, and 

 then from an ignorance of the cause of failure, believes it is 

 impossible to overcome the habit. 



The lesson must be repeated, as long as may be necessary 

 to the end of perfect success, or the horse once excited is 

 liable to drift back to being almost as bad as before. 



