Wednesday, July 1, 2009

To City Council re horses

Please tell me detailed plans for the Boston police horses now that the division has been closed. Also, please tell me the names of the agency or persons who will monitor those plans, also the location(s) of the places the horses will be taken. I am concerned that, once the media coverage ebbs, they might be sold for carriage horses or to slaughter houses. The "use" of carriage horses amounts to prisoner labor without respite or care. Treatment of carriage horses in Boston needs to be carefully investigated by knowledgeable sources. If competently done such an investigation would lead to the end of their use on the streets of Boston. In most European capitols "use" of carriage horses has been banned. How prisoner animals are treated is a litmus test for civilization. Thank you,

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