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Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts) Sun May 5, 2013, 05:53 PM May 2013

How NYC Carriage Horses Live

http://carriagehorsesnyc.blogspot.com/

Horse experts say that a horse should have pasture time every day for 16 to 18 hours.

They recommend between 1 and 1 ½ acres of pasture per horse. This is where the horses graze, exercise, hang out with his herd, play, mutually groom each other – a great stress reliever.

But alas, it does not exist in NYC. New York City carriage horses have no turnout to pasture.

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How NYC Carriage Horses Live (Original Post) LiberalElite May 2013 OP

Awful. The way humans treat some animals is quite disturbing to me. It's all virgogal May 2013 #1

There's a great horse rescue near Springfield, MA - LiberalElite May 2013 #2

Thanks for that link. The Eight Belles fiasco was the incident that virgogal May 2013 #3

virgogal

(10,178 posts)

1. Awful. The way humans treat some animals is quite disturbing to me. It's all

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Sun May 5, 2013, 06:11 PM

May 2013

about money.

Watching The Kentucky Derby yesterday reminded me of some of the awful things that have happened to horses all owned by multi-millionaires who use the horses to make even more money.

We've eliminated dog racing in MA and I hope horse racing is next.

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)

2. There's a great horse rescue near Springfield, MA -

Reply to virgogal (Reply #1)

Mon May 6, 2013, 08:29 PM

May 2013

Central New England Equine Rescue:

http://centralnewenglandequinerescue.com/toadopt/adoptmonty.html

One of their residents is a former Boston carriage horse.

virgogal

(10,178 posts)

3. Thanks for that link. The Eight Belles fiasco was the incident that

Reply to LiberalElite (Reply #2)

Mon May 6, 2013, 08:48 PM

May 2013

tipped me right over the edge.

It was awful to see.

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