Tuesday's
Horse
May 2017
Contact Mayor DeBlasio whether you live in New York or not — but especially
if you live there — and complain about carriage horse abuse and practices
and challenge him to at long last fulfill his election campaign promise to
ban it. No more excuses, such as in 2015 when DeBlasio blamed the NY City
Council for his failure. Sorry Mr. Mayor. No sale.
Think about what you want to say and send the Mayor of New York City a
letter, an online message or telephone his office to have your important
say.
Contact Information:
NYC
Mayor Bill de Blasio
City Hall
New York, NY 10007
Online contact form
MANHATTAN, NYC — It is almost unbelievable the way yesterday’s runaway
carriage horse incident is being reported. Not so much factually as
spiritually.
Reportage
Here is what has been commonly reported.
A carriage horse bolted on the streets of Midtown Monday morning galloping
through several streets before slamming into a yellow cab.
The horse’s head ended up against the taxi with one of his hooves jammed
under the front left wheel.
Unattributed image posted by The Daily Mail.
The horse had not been pulling a carriage at the time he broke free and ran
away. Witnesses believe he escaped from the place where he was being kept.
The runaway horse was checked over at the scene of the accident and said to
“look okay”.
That was it. Checked over. Looked okay. Nothing about having a licensed
veterinarian taking a look at the horse. I suppose with complaints now
flowing in they will say they did that once they got him back to the garage,
ahem … I mean, stable.
Speaking of getting the horse back to where he was kept, how about this?
They did not walk the runaway horse gently back to his multi story parking
garage type stable. Nor did they call for a vehicle to transport him there
as in other carriage horse accidents (the horse’s accommodation was assumed
but not verified as being close by).
Image © Thomas Beckner
They saddled him up to be ridden back to his claustrophobic digs. Perhaps
this is what motivated our runaway horse to escape in the first place — to
taste a just bit of momentary freedom.
The above is a summation from what various news outlets are reporting in
common on this story.
Horse Drawn Carriage Trade
There is nothing natural about the conditions carriage horses live and work
in, particularly in cities like Manhattan. More often than not these
conditions are mentally and physically cruel. What more do you need to know?
We love what one protester wrote on her placard a few years ago: “It’s 2014,
Not 1814”.t
Thank you for everything you do for animals!
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