Horse Problem - Pull back/back up problem - Horse pulls back and won't respect space
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QUESTION: Hello Sylvia. I have just begun working with a 13-year-old American Mustang who has a few bad habits of pulling back while tied and not backing up for me while being ground trained. While searching your site for pull back remedies, I read your advice about the belly rope. So I was wondering if I could kill two birds with one stone, so to speak, by teaching him how to give to pressure while at the same time jiggling the lead to teach him to back up, like you show. I am enjoying your web site and have already learned so much from your experience and advice. Thank you.
REPLY: Yes, that should work. You might try putting a natural horsemanship halter/12-foot lead rope underneath the web halter with belly rope, so that when you work on the back-up part, you can jiggle the natural horsemanship lead rope, which he'll feel more easily, due to the design of the NH halter (with knots at strategic pressure points on the face). It's harder to teach the back-up cue (which I'm assuming you read about how to teach here: Leading Problems - Horse runs over human/How to teach horse back-up cue on ground) in other kinds of web halters/leads. They learn it quicker in the NH halter/12' lead. So, since he has both problems, I'd do that. The belly rope will help him learn not to pull away, while the NH halter/lead there will help him learn the back-up cue faster. Just hold the leads together and use the one you need in a pinch. Should work!
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