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HORSE SENSE
Periodic updates about issues and actions concerning New York City's Carriage Horses +
Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages
www.banhdc.org
Horses Without Carriages International
www.horseswithoutcarriages.org
PLEASE FORWARD TO LISTS, FRIENDS & COLLEAGUES ** Bill signing - please testify ** Letters to the editor ** accidents
CITY HALL BILL SIGNING ON TUESDAY, APRIL 27th
Please testify against bill
Mayor Bloomberg will sign the carriage
industry bill,
Intro 35A,
on Tuesday, April 27th at 3PM in the Blue
Room at City Hall. Please be there at
2:30 PM. It is a public hearing
and the public is encouraged to make comments
-- two minutes. Suggested points to make:
- Mayor Bloomberg: please do not sign the
bill until you have more information
- The bill is totally misleading about
horse welfare. Horses need daily turnout -
not a 5-week vacation; the stalls are less
than half of what they should be; carriage
horses already do not go below 34th st.
- the water troughs continue to be
nonoperational in Central Park during the
cold months
- Major cities like London, Oxford,
Toronto, Beijing and New Delhi do not allow
carriage rides.
- There are no requirements for sprinklers
in the stables, which are fire traps
- Horses do not belong in the heavy traffic
of NYC. They are unwitting weapons and
easily spook.
Please let me know if you will testify and if
you need any ideas about content.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
NY Times
Carriage
Horses' Plight -
Published: April 23, 2010 -
To the Editor:
Re "Carriage-Horse Vote" (news article, April
15): The carriage-horse operators deprive
their horses of a pasture where they can
graze freely and interact with other horses;
they force these nervous animals to work in
the most congested city in the country, where
they get spooked and flee; they subject them
to a nose-to-tailpipe existence that causes
respiratory disease; they force them to work
on hard pavement, which causes concussive leg
injury and lameness; they confine them at
night to stalls in multistory warehouse
buildings in Midtown; and the New York City
Council rewards them with a pay raise?
The existence of these horse-and-buggies in
Midtown Manhattan in 2010 should be an
embarrassment to the city and an outrage to
anyone opposed to animal cruelty.
Donny Moss
New York, April 15, 2010
The writer is the director of "Blinders,"
a documentary film about the New York City
carriage-horse controversy.
ACCIDENTS IN PHILLY AND ATLANTA
flimsy carriages; spooked horses; people and horse injuries
April 16th - a car rammed the back of a horse
carriage causing the driver and passengers to
fall out. All were injured. The horse
bolted and was later caught. Click
here for more information.
April 19th - a few days later and a similar
accident occurred in Philadelphia when a car
crashed into several carriages. Five people
and five horses were hurt. Click
here for more information.
pictures above: first is Philadelphia;
second one
is
Atlanta
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"Never doubt that a small group of
thoughtful, committed citizens can change the
world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever
has." Margaret Mead.
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Thank you for caring about the horses,
Elizabeth Forel - Coalition to Ban
Horse-Drawn Carriages - a standing committee
of The Coalition for New York City Animals,
Inc.
Please DONATE
to our campaign to ban
the inhumane and unsafe carriage horse industry.
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