How to Catch Your Horse

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By CowgirlCal
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Catching your horse to get him/her out of the pasture not hard to do...

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

a halter
a leadrope
a few horse small horse treats

Step 1

First,with the horse's halter,leadrope,and treats behind your back,call your horse's name.
Step 2

Now,if it doesn't come then walk up to it and show him/her the treats.
Step 3

Next feed him/her a treat.[If your horse is hard to catch,wrap the leadrope loosely around his/her neck and clamp it kinda like a collar.]
Step 4

Then,while it's chewing slip the halter on it's head and tighten it.[Also make it comfortable for the horse.]
Step 5

Next, if the leadrope is around his/her neck,take it off and clamp it to the ring on the horse's halter.
Step 6

Then, give him/her another treat,tell it good boy or good girl,stroke it on the neck and lead him/her out of the pasture.

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Fuller1972 said

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on 8/24/2008 Yup, this usually works. Hopefully, after lots of treats your horse will just start coming to you. However, we took in a shetland for the humane society that was serverely abused about 5 years ago, and we still have to trick her to catch her.