It was very busy early on the horse market final November. Picture: Bart Meesters
MAASDRIEL – The Gelderland faction of the Celebration for the Animals needs to know from the mayor and aldermen of Maasdriel whether or not the municipality will concern a allow for the Horse Market in Hedel once more this yr.
That is what occasion chairman Lester van der Pluijm writes in a letter to the council. In response to the PvdD, animal welfare on the annual Horse Market in early November remains to be poor. “There’s a failure in supervision of the commerce in stolen animals,” mentioned Van der Pluijm. “Animals are tethered too brief, that means they can not drink, eat or lie down. There are animals with indicators of neglect and intensely skinny animals. The NVWA is absent and there’s no supervision of the welfare (aside from ailments) of the animals through the market and through transport. Animals have been crushed with a stick and individuals who have been closely drunk might purchase animals.”
The PvdD has requested a listing of questions within the letter, together with about how the circumstances of the allow are monitored. The faction calls on the municipal council of Maasdriel to not grant a allow for the horse market sooner or later: “Do you agree with us that the welfare of the horses needs to be animal worthy always, and that the circumstances of the horse market ought to step by step be improved? bettering isn’t sufficient?”
