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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

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ANIMALS MATTER: OUR BLUE PRINT FOR CHANGE
Saturday December 7th at Steps of City Hall in NYC
Animal issues have been largely ignored during the last 20 years in this great city and largely before that. Animals are suffering as a result of our failure to enact policies and legislation that would protect them and, in so doing, add enrichment to our own lives. Mayor-Elect de Blasio's mayoral election platform called for a humane city for New York's animals - recognizing that we need to do more to ensure that animals receive humane treatment.

Because of these long term injustices, there are many animal issues that need to be addressed. These are the priorities that need attention in the first critical days and months of the new administration.

  • Ban horse-drawn carriages - pure unqualified shut down
  • Reform and restructure the municipal animal shelter system including new shelters in the Bronx and Queens
  • End the slaughter of Canada geese
  • Ban animals in circuses
  • Companion animals - end sale in pet shops; pets in housing; increased spay/neuter
  • Enforce animal cruelty laws - ASPCA no longer involved as of January 1st.

  • WHEN: Saturday December 7, 2013 - 11:00 am to 12:00 noon
  • WHERE: Steps of City Hall - NYC - (City Hall between Broadway and Park Row - entrances on both sides)
  • WHO: Compassion for Animals Coalition -- an ad hoc group formed for this purpose

Please come and take the opportunity to let our elected officials know that people care about these issues.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:
  • Come to this historical event
  • Share this newsletter with friends and acquaintances
  • See our Event on Facebook and sign up.
  • Like our Facebook page Animals Matter NYC
  • Visit our web site ( work in progress) www.animalsmatternyc.com
  • Sign up as a supporter by e-mailing us at [email protected] - put your name in the subject line
  • SPREAD THE WORD!

QUOTES FROM BLACK BEAUTY BY ANNA SEWELL - 1877
"My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt." - Anna Sewell

"Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it." ― Anna Sewell

CARRIAGE HORSE DEMO - SATURDAY 11/16/13
a resounding success
Please click on the link to see the images from yesterday:

This is our new banner showing the 9/24/13 accident.

BAN CARRIAGE HORSE AD T-SHIRTS AVAILABLE
roberto's shirt We are now offering great looking t-shirts based on our successful ad campaign - Carriage Horses Suffer - thanks to Roberto, the Nomadic Cat -for the Ts and Jane Denny - for the original art work. Click here.

BLINDERS: THE TRUTH BEHIND THE TRADITION
for sale or rent on Amazon
Blinders: The Truth Behind the Tradition is an award winning documentary produced in 2008 by film maker Donny Moss about the NYC horse-drawn carriage trade. Click here to either buy or rent. You may read reviews here.

Donny Moss recently said "Each of the major papers in NYC supports the continuation of horse-drawn carriages in NYC, and each will be on the wrong side of history. When people look back 50 years from now at the images of dead and injured horses lying in the streets, they are going to ask, 'What were they thinking, forcing horses to pull carriages in midtown Manhattan?"

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HELP OUR ORGANIZATION BY SHOPPING ON LINE
Also check out Cafe Press to purchase CBHDC merchandise
igive Through a free registration with iGive, when you buy merchandise on line, your purchase will help us. There are over 700 stores that include such popular ones as Amazon.com, Staples, Best Buy and Barnes & Noble. Even Cafe Press is available if you purchase some of our merchandise. Click here to get started.

On iGive - the name of our organization is "The Coalition for NYC Animals, Inc." We also have three stores on Cafe Press with great t-shirts, bags, hats, mugs, mouse pads, etc. Purchasing this merchandise helps our organization. Click here.

"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.

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.