No Water For The Hard Working NYC Carriage Horses

[03rylee]

Being a horse owner my whole life, I must point out these horses are VERY durable amazing creatures that love having jobs... but they deserve the most respect we could give them for hauling our lazy butts around. Carriage horses are a pretty sight to see, but it's WRONG. If they had enough supply of water, feed, had regular vet check ups, a nice stall + pasture to relax in, and enough horses to rotate shifts so one horse didn't have to slave away all hours of the day, i'd be completely for it.

[rrrina]

At the demo today (1/22/2012) I saw a horse eating icy snow in the freezing cold (which lowers his core temperature even further) because he was so thirty. It was heartbreaking.

[FreeTheHorses12]

Here is a new development about the taxes and revenues of the horse carriage industry: The entire is shaking with the letters that they received from IRS and USCIS. USCIS asked the employers to return the I9 forms for their employees, as the IRS asked the employers to get the SS-8 forms filled out and returned. This is the end of the road. We will not be seeing these pretty creatures on the streets of New York, overtiming, going to Times Square at 9pm, overloading more than 4 adults.

[Sanityish]

Very sad.. Why or how can ppl treat a Horse or any other animal like this. We all know how important Water is. Plus Horses don't belong in the city's in my opinion especially with all the bad cases of the Carriage horses...Thank you nadiaNYC for letting us know ur information. Who lives there can make a difference. I'm in another State.

[nadiaNYC]

There are only a few of them in the city and have NOT found one in the 25 years I've lived here in NYC...not a single water trough have water. I have seen spit and all kinds of garbage but no water for the enslaved horse. Sickening!!!

[Starr1172]

Complete bullshit!

[123karenmaree]

This is an awful example of cruelty in New York!

[rrrina]

That is AWFUL! SHAME ON THIS ABOMINABLE INDUSTRY. It needs to BANNED, period!