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"How to Halter a Horse," from my FREE monthly newsletter
From the Basic Horse Training Series:
"Is he head shy? Does he have a cow when you touch his ears or chin or block his vision? Then put the halter down and use your hands to desensitize him to your touch. (Use a dressage whip at first if you feel he might throw his head about and strike you. This would be a silly way to lose your front teeth. Stand at the point of his shoulder if you feel there's any chance he might try to kick or walk into you.) Begin by finding the spots where he doesn't like to be touched and do what any bratty older sister would do: Keep touching him there. If you can't touch his ears, rub the area you can rub, edging ever closer to the ears as the horse grows bored, being careful to only remove our rubs when the horse pauses. There's only one way to screw this up and that is for you to pause when he moves away. If he moves, you move with him. Remember, you "sensitize" the horse (that is, make him more likely to move) when you remove your pressure as he moves; you "desensitize" the horse (dull him to something) when you remove your pressure when he stops doing something.
If you're saying, "Yeah, but he moves his ears the second I touch them," that's fine. If you can bring your hand up and over his ears even for a tenth of a second, you would have accomplished your immediate objective of touching his ears. (Our long term goal is haltering the horse and we never start with our goal, right?) All you need to do is repeat this over and over and over, slowing your hand above his ears as he begins to grow bored. The horse has either grown sensitive to having his ears touched because people backed off as he pitched his head ("sensitizing him") – or no one's ever worked with him period (as in the case of a youngster). Either way, our response is the same."
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A sample from Day 1:
"Keep the horse moving consistently in the same direction, at the same speed. Each time he turns on his own, turn him back to the direction you'd chosen (more on how you'd do that coming up); each time he slows down, speed him back up to the speed you've chosen. Always get yourself back into "neutral" (the center, looking ahead, seemingly ignoring the horse) as quickly as possible.
Our goal at this step is simply this: The horse must learn that we expect him to trot around (or move in whatever gait we've chosen) the round pen, without our continual prompting. We don't ask a finished horse to trot and then continually ask him to trot, right? No, we don't. We expect him to begin trotting and then trot until asked to change gait. Same thing here. When your horse will consistently circle you (let's say three full rounds) without breaking stride, you can move on. This sounds simple (and it is) but you'll be pleasantly surprised to see your horse go from not understanding this easy concept ("keep doing something") to suddenly "getting it." Smile, you've just taken the first step toward a full partnership with your horse."
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