62 TRAINING OF HORSES. 
thereby form the habit. No horse ever jumped a fence 
for better food, unless he had first formed the habit 
from other causes. 
There is no animal known whose love of home, or af-- 
fection for his kind or acquaintance, is as strongly devel- 
oped as in the horse. It is a marked characteristic in 
this animal, and is one of his strongest impelling mo- 
tives. If a horse, recently removed from a neighbor's, 
escapes your possession, you instinctively look for him | 
at the place from which he came, and you usually find 
him there. Therefore give him no opportunity to es- 
cape, until the impression is in a measure forgotten by 
the lapse of time. There are times when the desire of 
the animal for company is greater than at others. By 
taking him up and securing him at these times, he has 
no opportunity of forming this unpleasant habit, where: 
as if then allowed to run in the pastures, some exciting 
cause may impel him to jump, and once he finds he can 
escape confinement by jumping, he is quite apt to re- 
peat it without any particular cause. 
This concludes our account of the habits of the colt 
and their treatment. Of course we have not spoken 
specifically of al/ the minor habits, but in the main ones 
which we have given, there are a sufficient number of 
rules laid down to guide the sensible operator to the 
proper remedy for such as are not named. Remember 
that the colt is being cured of habits which are either 
bred or are caused by nervous fear, and not, as a gen- 
eral thing, the result of willfulness on his part. 
