Comments on: Catching a Horse

By: Abbie

Abbie — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:10:13 +0000

I have a horse who is 15 years old. When I got him he was still a little skiddish when rode or being caught. I had stopped working with him for about 4 years or so. I have recently started to work with him again. I can lead him wonderful on his halter, but once I take him out of the pen he is OK but he doesn’t like to be too far away from his buddy (donkey). It’s like he gets to scared being out of the pen. There is no way I could put a saddle on him and ride him, but how do I eventually get him back to the point of riding him, and not having him be homesick of his buddy??

By: ArabianLove

ArabianLove — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 07:05:37 +0000

One of my horses not only runs from me but turns her rear at me when I try to catch her. She is taught to never position her rear end facing me and is a very good girl when I have the halter on. She is amazing on the longe line (and at liberty) will turn, back up, come to me, in all gaits I ask. Also none of the reasons why horses won’t be caught apply to her. I think she just knows that most of the time when she is caught she has to do something (although not all the time), and she is very lazy. So honestly this wasn’t helpful at all.

By: Jill

Jill — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 06:20:51 +0000

Thanks for the great tips.

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:13:20 +0000

I recently brought home a rescue horse that proved very difficult to catch once turned out. All the tips provided in this article were very beneficial, and after 5 days of consistency and working towards the horse’s acceptance of my presence, we have a much easier catch.

By: :)

:) — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:18:02 +0000

thanks

By: Horselover

Horselover — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:06:47 +0000

thanks for the tips.

By: PKL

PKL — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 06:32:51 +0000

Hopefully these tips will work for one mare I brought.

By: No name

No name — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:51:11 +0000

I just got in 2 untouched colts about or near a year. One has a halter on, the other a rope. I can get to touch and rub the one, but the older one is so afraid. Slow is the key, and to start to build trust.

By: hannah

hannah — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:23:12 +0000

i thought these were videos, and you should have more videos you dont have to download.

By: n/a

n/a — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:35:42 +0000

Nice article.This may sound harsh and doesn’t really help correcting this behavior ,but one method i have used for catching a really wild horse is to get a thick ,long rope tye one end to a post on a fence about 2 or 3 feet high on the post then let the rope slack and get someone to herd the horse toward the slackened rope and when it gets close pull it up tight and run around the horse and pin it to the fence then get that person who chased it to put a halter on it.It could be dangerous and may terrify the horse ,but i’ve found that usually the horse is so shocked that it will just stand there amazed.Not to brag or anything but, once some friends of ours had a very naughty pony that they hadn’t touched in about a months and were trying to move it to a pasture across the street and they had tried feed ,lassoing ,and chasing it till it was tired to catch it and i caught it using this method in about 5 minutes.:):P