HorseWatch NYC: Horses in NYC Traffic

Friday, June 27, 2008

Life in the Big City

Non-New Yorkers may be under the illusion that carriage horses live inside Central Park, get daily turnout, and have a pretty good life. This really is an illusion. Take a look at the video "Horses in NYC Traffic" on YouTube, posted by "horsesinnyc." A real eye-opener.
You may be new to the carriage-horse issue, or perhaps you have experience with horses. In any event, you will see that it is inappropriate and inhumane for horse-drawn carriages to operate in New York City.
Support a full ban on horse-drawn carriages in New York City
Learn more -- Visit the Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages

She'll vacation elsewhere...

We are a family of five, we live in Toronto...the horse-drawn carriages are one reason why we haven't been to NYC since seeing animals suffering would ruin our vacation. A few years ago we went to Chicago without knowing that Chicago had horse-drawn carriages. It was a SAD sight and we vowed never to visit another city where horses are being used in this way.

Marce, in a comment to the New York Post (1/31/09)

Eyewitness to a needless tragedy

The blogger Ryan J. Davis recounts what he saw on the day that poor young Spotty died, in January 2006:

"I stood outside of VYNL Diner waiting for my lunch date in early January 2006. I looked up ninth avenue and saw a horse-drawn carriage, speeding out of control, heading downtown. The driver couldn't get the horse to slow and, as it approached fiftieth Street, they slammed into a passing car. The driver was thrown from the carriage and was badly injured. The horse ended up under the car.
It was a shocking sight that I won't soon forget.