Ryder, a carriage horse, collapsed on Wednesday “Almost certainly for the warmth” in Manhattan, reports the animal defense affiliation PETA. According to NBC, the driver of the carriage whipped the animal to get it up. In the end, he remained on the ground for much more than an hour, surrounded by policemen who sprayed him to amazing him down.
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In a video clip posted on Twitter, the team denounces the mistreatment of carriage horses, primarily in the course of heatwaves: “Horses have no spot in significant cities wherever they are continually endangered by automobiles, individuals and time.”
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To defend himself, a spokesperson for the Transportation Staff Union, the American union representing horse-drawn carriage drivers, evokes the equine protozoan myeloencephalitis that the horse suffers from in accordance to the veterinarian who treated him.
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He consequently justifies his tumble for this neurological disorder brought about by a parasite. Other associations level the finger at this follow debated for numerous years in New York, though Monthly bill de Blasio, the previous mayor of the town, experienced tried in vain to ban it.
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