Haney's Art of Training Animals / A Practical Guide for Amateur or Professional Trainers. Giving Full Instructions for Breaking, Taming and Teaching All Kinds of Animals Including an Improved Method of Horse Breaking, Management of Farm Animals, Training of Sporting Dogs; Serpent Charming, Care and Tuition of Talking, Singing and Performing Birds; and Detailed Instructions for Teaching All Circus Tricks, and Many Other Wonderful Feats.
Transcriber’s Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
THE SIEGE—PERFORMED BY DOG AND MONKEY ACTORS
Illustrated With Over Sixty Engravings.
New York:
JESSE HANEY & CO., PUBLISHERS,
OFFICE OF HANEY’S JOURNAL,
No. 119 Nassau Street.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1869, by Jesse
Haney & Co., in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the
United States, for the Southern District of New York.
Haney’s Art of Training Animals .
W. H. Burroughs
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CONTENTS
PREFACE.
POWELL’S MANAGEMENT OF WILD HORSES.
MANAGING HORSES BY KINDNESS.
TO CURE A STUBBORN DISPOSITION.
THE CORD AND LINE WEBBING.
TO TEACH A HORSE TO STOP.
TO TEACH A HORSE TO BACK.
TO MAKE A HORSE FOLLOW YOU.
TO STAND WITHOUT HOLDING.
WHIP TRAINING.
TO CURE BALKY HORSES.
HOW TO PREVENT HARNESSED HORSES FROM RUNNING AWAY.
HOW TO INSTANTLY STOP RUNAWAY HORSES.
THE SHORT AND LONG STRAPS.
TO TEACH A HORSE TO SIT UP.
KICKING AT WORD OF COMMAND.
TALKING HORSES.
TEACHING HORSES TO JUMP.
TO MAKE A HORSE STAND ERECT.
TO “PIROUETTE.”
THE PEDESTAL.
TO TEACH A HORSE TO KISS.
TO MAKE A HORSE FETCH AND CARRY.
FINDING A HIDDEN HANDKERCHIEF.
TO SELECT A CHOSEN CARD.
TO FIRE OFF A PISTOL.
TO TEACH A HORSE TO DANCE.
TO EAT AT TABLE.
TO TURN A HAND ORGAN.
TO FEIGN LAMENESS.
TO TEACH A HORSE TO WALK OVER YOU.
ORDINARY CIRCUS HORSES.
PERFORMING MULES.
WATCH DOGS.
THE SHEPHERD’S DOG.
PRELIMINARY TRAINING.
LESSONS IN THE FIELD.
WATER DOGS.
TO TEACH HIM HIS NAME.
TO LEAP.
TO WALK ERECT.
TO DANCE.
TO JUMP ROPE.
TO SIT AND LIE DOWN.
TO BEG.
TO GIVE HIS PAW.
TO SNEEZE.
TO SPEAK FOR IT.
TO FETCH AND CARRY.
TO BRING HIS TAIL IN HIS MOUTH.
THE ROLLING BALL.
TO WALK ON STILTS.
TO GO UP AND DOWN A LADDER.
TO STAND ON HIS HEAD AND TO WALK ON HIS FORE LEGS.
TO “SING.”
THE LUMP OF SUGAR TRICK.
TO FEIGN DEATH.
THE WAY THAT ELEPHANTS ARE TRAINED.
HOW “HUNTING ELEPHANTS” ARE TRAINED.
PERFORMING ELEPHANTS.
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