Category: Cruelty to horses

  • It is time to take Police horses off front-line duties.

    It is time to take Police horses off front-line duties.

    A horse’s role must be hazardous if it needs protective gear just like it’s human colleagues. In this modern era of drunkeness and violence police horses and dogs are coming under increasing risk of being injured. Every football season horses supposedly there to protect citizens are injured and attacked by those they are there to…

  • Grand National – Carnage or Spectacle?

    Grand National – Carnage or Spectacle?

    The excitement of the 2019 Grand National is over and it is time for the usual post mortem. One horse killed and another taken away by ambulance appears according to the media and racing authorities to have been a pretty good result. Two other horses, Forest des Aigles and Crucial Role, were also euthanised the…