Re: Fwd: RC: Arab Slaughter Horses (long, yikes!)

["Laura Hayes" <mark@madbbs.com>]

Double deck trucks are not legal transport of horses in New York State.  I
investigated cruelty for our county for several years, and saw it all.....it
still hurts.

Laura Hayes

----- Original Message -----
From: "hope lundquist" <wwho20@hotmail.com>
To: <heart@magiclink.com>
Cc: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 11:17 AM
Subject: RC: Fwd: RC: Arab Slaughter Horses (long, yikes!)


> Hi Katey: I thought double decker horse transportation was outlawed. I am
> sure it has been in California anyway. Maybe it's a State by State
decision.
> Where did you see the truck? Bye Hope
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>
> >From: guest@endurance.net
> >To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
> >Subject: RC:  Arab Slaughter Horses (long, yikes!)
> >Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:59:27 -0700
> >
> >Katey Gies heart@magiclink.com
> >Actually, I have been to more slaughter sales than I care to count, so I
> >feel qualified to dispute two comments made regarding Arabs, or slaughter
> >horses in general and slaugher buyers.  I have seen many, many emaciated
> >animals sold for slaughter.  I see no evidence that because the slaughter
> >market exists, horses are not starved.  People who are not inclined to
> >feed their horses, don't, whether they have a place to dump them or not.
> >Suggesting that if there weren't a slaughter market that more horses
would
> >be starving in pastures is pure speculation.  If the best solution we can
> >come up with to protect our horses from cruel and inhumane treatment is
to
> >slaughter them to keep people from starving them to death, then
> >God help us all.
> >
> >I have watched the horses be loaded into the killer trucks.  Horses are
> >literally jammed onto double decker semi trucks.  One particular day, it
> >was in the high 90's, in August.  The horses were loaded up the chute,
> >most got a blast from the hotshot as they went into the truck.  One
little
> >Appy mare that I had watched sell the night before had just had her foal
> >weaned in the sale ring.  She fell going up the ramp as it was very
slick.
> >I jumped up on the side of the truck to look inside, she was standing,
> >shaking, leaning against the other mares she was crammed in with, holding
> >her foot up.  She couldn't even put weight on it.  Her udder was full,
> >milk ran down both her hind legs.  I also stood on the side of the truck
> >and looked at the geldings, which they had loaded into the belly of the
> >truck.  A couple of tall Thoroughbreds kept catching their withers on the
> >support rail when they passed under it.  They were already bloody from
> >being jostled around before the truck pulled out.  These particular
horses
> >were headed for a three day trip to Texas, this was Saturday afternoon,
> >they would arrive on Tuesday.  The driver had two other stops planned at
> >sales along the way to top off the load.  He explained to me that this
was
> >a "sealed load" since they were destined for slaughter, they weren't
> >required to have a Coggins test.  What that meant for the horses, is that
> >they wouldn't be unloaded from the truck until it reached the
> >slaughterhouse.  No food, no water and 90+ degrees.  I have heard many
> >people say that they are not opposed to slaughter, only to the method of
> >transport.  The slaughter buyers do what they do for the money, believe
> >me, they are not on a mission of mercy to rid the world of the excess
> >horses.  These horses are transported in the most economical manner
> >possible, it just happens to also be the most inhumane.  Until horses are
> >transported humanely, the transport issue and the slaughter issue are one
> >in the same.
> >
> >I can't change the world, but I can make a small part of it  better for a
> >few horses.
> >
> >
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