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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 5:
"Because biting is the single-most dangerous thing a horse can do (a finger can be gone in an instant), we must deal with it in kind. Here are two remedies: One, if your horse bites you (or even "near misses you"), you have three seconds to tell him he just made the biggest mistake of his life. Hit him as hard as you can (anywhere but the head) for three seconds and no more. Striking beyond three seconds is punitive – and the horse will no longer make the connection between his action and your reaction. Again, stay away from the head – we don't want to accidentally hit the eye.
Another fix is to take the horse's muzzle between your two hands and rub it back and forth, as if you were trying to warm your hands. Do this till the horse pulls his head away – bring it right back and keep doing it. Do this every time the horse gives you the evil eye and he'll soon start thinking better of starting something."
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