In Defense Of The Carriage Horse

The Carriage Horse Trade: Is it really abusive?

The carriage horse is bred to be strong and to love pulling.

Granted there are owners who abuse their animals and make
them work too many hours.
Or use horses that are too small for the load they pull.

PETA thinks that working a horse is abusive and that all
horses should be in pasture.
People were not put on this earth to work either except to
provide food and shelter for themselves.

It is being very idealistic to hope that horses should only be in pasture.
Who is going to support them?
And how is this going to happen with humans buying all the
farms to build houses and businesses?
Horses have always been used for travel whether riding or pulling a carriage.
Now that they are obsolete for this do they need to be discarded?

Why not give people a taste of the past,
the romance and all if it does not harm the horse?
If the horse is well cared for why not give people rides?

Because of the recent accident in Central Park there is a
movement to ban horses at the park.
Maybe Central Park should be closed to cars.
Just let horses and pedestrians use it.
I am sure we would be healthier without all the polution.

I personally do not own carriages in Central Park
but do have a carriage company for Weddings and Hay rides.

PETA wants to take all this away because of some bad apples in the load.
They are telling towns not to hire wagons and carriages
instead of telling them to check references and affiliations.

We usually do not work our horses for more than 3 hours
without a break and refuse to go up and down hills.

I would certainly not appreciate one of the PETA agents
showing up at one of our jobs and causing dissention
when they know nothing about our horses and their handlers.

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