Carriage Horses in NYC
If you have visited Manhattan, you have probably seen many sites - The Empire State Building, top restaurants, theater. Did you also notice the carriage horses waiting to pull you around Central Park? While they’re decorated with red plumes and driven by people wearing top hats, they lead desperate lives. They stand and even trot on cement roads in humid weather hour after hour with improper shade and water. In the winter, they may stand outside for hours without any blanketing. At the end of the day, they go back to conditions that are even worse. Their stalls are in converted apartment buildings that have inadequate ventilation and stalls wide enough only for the horses to stand. This means that the horses never have a chance to lie down as all animals must. There is no doubt that keeping animals in these conditions is cruel and unacceptable.
The APSCA is working to improve conditions for carriage horses. To read more about the conditions carriage horses live in, the ASPCA’s proposed changes to create better lives for these horses, and to voice your complaint about conditions as they are, go to the ASPCA NYC Carriage page. To have the ASPCA send a letter to the mayor on your behalf, go to their Advocacy page.
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