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When Juliet, a carriage horse in NYC collapsed and died, she was wearing Rusty’s tags. iAnd it was reported that Rusty had died. Then of course the truth came out. Mare died wearing gelding’s tags and it was not discovered until AFTER she was dead. So much for inspections.
Kind of like that horse this summer in Utah. When Jerry collapsed and was hauled off to die, the carriage people presented another grey horse as Jerry. I think they switched a mare for the dead gelding. When I saw the pix of the 2nd horse, it was obvious comparing the pix to the video of the dying Jerry being lifted at the barn and taken into the barn to die, that the mare was not Jerry. Thank God someone followed the dying horse to the barn and videotaped him being hauled around.
Some farriers, not mine, rasp the outer layer of the hoof so that it looks good. I presume that rasping would remove any “branding” of the hoof. And I know that acrylics make wonderful hooves, my farrier used acrylics to make wonderful hooves on my shelly hoofed horse years ago so that he could keep his shoes on. All one has to do is put on acrylics over a “brand” if that is what is used for identification of a carriage horse, and then apply a new brand #. Except had would presume that horses are inspected on the street daily. Which of course they are not.
and they are stalled up on 2nd floors of buildings. So I presume fire is a huge hazard for horses in shavings with hay on upper floors in portable stalls lined up on each side the whole length of a building. Sprinklers are essential. Wasn’t Shamrock Stables on City property? And did’t the city require sprinkler system in its own building?[/QUOTE]
You know, that someone, somewhere breaks laws doesn’t mean a whole industry does.
There was some animal rights extremist horrible abuse video in a dairy presented by animal rights groups to national TV at the time an important state vote was to happen, that would have shut the dairy industry in that state.
That made it look like that is what happens in all dairies, lets shut them down!
You are doing that to NYC carriage horses by bringing that up.
You may as well be saying “you see, some are crooks”, lets ban them!:eek:
Well, some may be cheating, or there may have been a mistake and good explanation there, you know.:no:
Some times, debates are not about being right, but about doing what is right.:yes:
Here, on many levels, my opinion is that what is right as a horse person is to see that the NYC carriage horses not be railroaded.
This is not the time to pick at them and try to find fault, any one fault, anything they did or may have not done right before.
NO ONE can stand there and say they are without fault and demand that of others.
IN GENERAL, the NYC carriage horses ARE some of the most visible and inspected and have the most rules and regulations and silly hoops to jump thru than most any other out there we do with horses you can find.
While not perfect, nothing is, they are definitely being assaulted falsely when they are branded abusers, as they are right now in the eyes of the gullible public.
That should be objectionable to any honest person out there, especially those with horses, that knowingly or not are already in the sights of those same after the carriage horses, targeted also eventually for the same treatment.:eek:
