My horse has a headcollar on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Paid someone else to do it!!! haha To be fair its the girl he has known since before us :-) My oh has been working with the rope with him, and she has only had 3 sessions with him and got it on :D Literally fed a rope around into a halter, fed him a million treats and did the proper headcollar up around his neck and then up over his nose!! OH nearly got it on, on Sat, so was only a matter of time, so chuffed she managed to do it so fast :-) Now the little git will have another put on over the top and practice leading around the field, sooo chuffed... will upload a photo!
 
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Devonshire dumpling said:
So pleased :-) Never too proud to ask for help from a professional, we would have got there in the end, but she was superfast!X
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We all need a little support sometimes :)
I've not read your previous posts but i will go back and do it now.
I had a rescue pony that I aquired and I could not get near the thing! I must have sat in the field for days with a brown paper bag of apples and all things tasty to eventually get her to come to me and take a treat and then to eventauallllllllyyyyyyy allow me to take hold of her headcollar.

Its the most rewarding thing in the world!!
Said pony is now rehomed to a fab pony club home and is giving a little girl a lifetime of happiness!
 
GingerTrotter said:
We all need a little support sometimes :)
I've not read your previous posts but i will go back and do it now.
I had a rescue pony that I aquired and I could not get near the thing! I must have sat in the field for days with a brown paper bag of apples and all things tasty to eventually get her to come to me and take a treat and then to eventauallllllllyyyyyyy allow me to take hold of her headcollar.

Its the most rewarding thing in the world!!
Said pony is now rehomed to a fab pony club home and is giving a little girl a lifetime of happiness!
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Awwww bless! Our boy was given to us by a friend who rescued him from the horse sales, he was not ina great way and had a headcollar on, they took it off and soon discovered he wasn't halter broken lol.... she has nourished him etc etc... we then take him on and he's so untrusting due to previous home (before my friend) and spent literally 2 mths plus trying to get a headcollar on, been doing reward training and we have had our ups and downs, we got to the point we can groom him, and he even gave us his left side (which was an issue) but we couldnt get the headcollar on...... so few weeks of putting a rope around his neck and nose and working with him has paid off :-) X
 
I've just gone back and read some of your older posts, and the great photos you posted previously of him playing in the field and with your husband doing some rope training. Well done you, well done for being so patient, it's so worth it in the end, isn't it :D:D:D
 
I went through a similar process with my late ISH nearly two years ago. I'd had him for nearly two years at that point but he was becoming increasingly difficult to catch (after being mistreated in the past I think), and after months of trying everything suggested to me by friends, books etc. I decided to get help from a behaviourist. She was an equine vet predominantly who specialised in behaviour so I trusted her to use common sense! I gradually retrained him to accept the headcollar while he was living out; making him touch it on the ground by putting treats on top of it, touching him with it etc, and eventually he accepted it! It was the most amazing feeling, and we had a fantastic bond for the rest of his life. Tragically it was cut too short after he had to be PTS after a nasty bout of colitis when he was 11. I learnt so much from him though.

Good luck with your boy, sounds like he's progressing really well so far!
 
HappyNeds said:
I've just gone back and read some of your older posts, and the great photos you posted previously of him playing in the field and with your husband doing some rope training. Well done you, well done for being so patient, it's so worth it in the end, isn't it :D:D:D
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Very rewarding, shame it wasn't us who "sealed the deal" but that would be an ego thing!! We needed him to have a headcollar on sooner rather than later as he is moving nearer to home beginning of June, hence why we got the extra help, we nearly sealed the deal at the weekend so know it would have happened :-)

Tash88 said:
I went through a similar process with my late ISH nearly two years ago. I'd had him for nearly two years at that point but he was becoming increasingly difficult to catch (after being mistreated in the past I think), and after months of trying everything suggested to me by friends, books etc. I decided to get help from a behaviourist. She was an equine vet predominantly who specialised in behaviour so I trusted her to use common sense! I gradually retrained him to accept the headcollar while he was living out; making him touch it on the ground by putting treats on top of it, touching him with it etc, and eventually he accepted it! It was the most amazing feeling, and we had a fantastic bond for the rest of his life. Tragically it was cut too short after he had to be PTS after a nasty bout of colitis when he was 11. I learnt so much from him though.

Good luck with your boy, sounds like he's progressing really well so far!
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Awwww that's so sad :-(
 
Just keep putting 2nd headcollar on for him to go out and take it off and then make a fuss when you go to catch him and put it on to bring him in,has worked wonders on my youngster,as he now thinks I can catch hold of him at anytime, so able to take the headcollar off at night when he's stabled.But keep the first one on until you feel he's settling with having a headcollar being put on each day, took my little one 2 months.
 
Echo Bravo said:
Just keep putting 2nd headcollar on for him to go out and take it off and then make a fuss when you go to catch him and put it on to bring him in,has worked wonders on my youngster,as he now thinks I can catch hold of him at anytime, so able to take the headcollar off at night when he's stabled.But keep the first one on until you feel he's settling with having a headcollar being put on each day, took my little one 2 months.
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Yes that's what we plan to do, we have very strong join up anyway, so catching him isn't an issue, he catches us lol.... don't think it will take him long to get used to having the new one put over the top :-) Began to think this would never happen :-)
 
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