Cross-posted from City Room Blog/New York Times
Written by BAO ONG
As a family-operated carriage-horse stable in Hell’s Kitchen scrambled to fend off eviction from the city, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and another nonprofit stepped forward to offer to find homes for the horses — outside of the horse-carriage industry.
No thanks, said Colm McKeever, one of the brothers who owns the stable, Shamrock Stables, at 522 West 45th Street. “First of all, our intention is to stay in business,” he said.
The A.S.P.C.A. and New Yorkers for Clean, Livable & Safe Streets said Friday that they would work with Shamrock and the city to “find homes for these horses, taking them off the streets and placing them in environments that have their interests at heart.”
“This option puts the welfare of the horses first and prevents them from being auctioned off to work farms or where the possibility for exploitation and inhumane treatment is high,” the groups wrote in a joint statement. The A.S.P.C.A. and other animal rights groups have for years claimed that the horses should be prohibited from dwelling in the city.
A spokeswoman for the stable, Carolyn Daly, said: “This is like someone losing their job, and the first thing they offer as a solution is taking your children. The children aren’t for sale and neither are the horses.” Read all >>
Related Reading: Carriage Horses have their Day at City Hall, City Room Blog/New York Times, March 12, 2010 >>
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I don’t get these people at all…not accepting an offer that would ensure that the horses would have good homes. In one breath saying they are their children and the next sending them off to the Amish to toil their lives away and suffer miserably. Ultimately these so-called “children” of theirs will be beaten, whipped, abused and hauled off to the auction worn and in shockingly poor condition only to be sold off to the kill buyers then travel the long and horrible trek to the slaughter house, their life ending in pain and suffering at the hands of butchers.
This is disgusting and the law should step in to prevent this from happening….. too cruel for words, it saddens me to think people like this are part of the human race!!!!!!! On the other hand, I guess it’s par for the course considering what we do to other sentient slaughter animals. The world HAS to change.
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