Abstract: A quick hitch for animals, logs or the like in which a hitching rope is passed around the object to be hitched or tied and then has both ends extending through a cylinder. A catch swingably connected to one rope end has elongated aligned handles which straddle the cylinder end so that tightening of the other rope end draws the cylinder against the object to hitch or tie the object as to a hitching post or the like.The two aligned handles of the catch may have shoulders spaced apart a distance equal to the inner diameter of the cylinder to prevent any accidental lateral shifting of the catch with respect to the cylinder.