280 HALT EB-PULLHSTG. 



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 pulled upon the pain inflicted will increase this 

 tendency to resist 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. 202. 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 desperately 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- 



