[QUOTE=Beverley;7356879]
Might I also add a plea from Utah for proponents of carriages to comment on the proposed ordinance changes here via this link:
http://www.slcgov.com/opencityhall?pd_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.peakdemocracy.com%2Fportals%2F79%2Fforum_home%3Factive_forum_id%3D221%26active_issue_id%3D1616%26phase%3DOpen
I am well aware BTW that some folks are po’d at the owners of the one company here over how things were handled last August- but I still maintain that collectively, on a national (even international) basis we need to weigh in on the facts- horses pulling carriages is not cruel or inhumane. So we really need a lot of comments before tomorrow’s meetings- especially since 3 new council members were sworn in this morning- their thoughts are unknown but education never hurts.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=horsefaerie;7357513]I would hope that Cothers would unite against ANY attack on the carriage horses right now and in the future.
THey are coming after ALL horses one discipline at a time.
Now is the time to be heard by the thousands and perhaps delay these attacks or our relationship with these beautiful animals![/QUOTE]
I second that.
Watching some gaited horses motoring around and around, strange way of going, cut tails and padded feet, is to me like someone scratching a blackboard.
There are many, many out there that such is a great feeling, they understand all that goes along with it and why they do this and that and how to do all that in a humane way, so horses are taken care of properly.
That I don’t like that at all, just as some don’t like other we do, here carriage horses giving rides to tourists in cities, well, that falls into the live and let live category of what all of us need to understand falls outside of personal preferences, if we want to have a world that fits all.
When someone decides now that what they want is the one and only that should happen, everyone else’s wishes don’t matter, as animal rights extremist do about any use of animals, the NYC carriage horses just one more stepping stone to their goals, then we really should give this a second and third thought and try to stay together, or divided we will fall to extremists.
Lets continue to work so what we do with our animals is sensible, to avoid abuses where they happen, but lets not have others against what all of us do, have horses for whatever we do, be thrown out with the bathwater, just because some may not like this or that others do with their animals.
I hope that the NYC carriage horses at least get their time in the spotlight to present their side, something it seems they have not had, their voice ground by extremists and opportunists, the first ones after eliminating all uses of animals, the others after the very valuable real estate the carriage horses are using.
I don’t know where this will go.
The carriage horses may be run off NYC yet.
Think, to let the public hear both sides is the right thing to do first.
Don’t help those that want to silence them, as some horse people seem to be doing.
By doing so, you are furthering the agendas of those that are after all of us.:no:
