They Don't Want You To Know The Truth About Horse Carriage Business

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But more and more people are finding out and are speaking up...❤️ We talked to Edita Birnkrant, who shared with us the never-seen-before footage of the conditions that these carriage horses live in and why it is almost impossible to rescue any of them!

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00:00His body just gave out and he collapsed.

00:04His owner started pitting him to get up and people were like,

00:08what are you doing? This horse needs help.

00:11Why are you slapping him?

00:12Because we're trying to get him up.

00:13He clearly ain't trying to get up.

00:19Then finally the mounted police came over to try to save Ryder's life.

00:24They iced him, they poured water on Ryder.

00:30It was his story that educated millions and millions of people

00:33about the truth behind the life of a carriage horse.

00:37That's how we see pretty much all of these horses collapse

00:40while they all get perfect health records

00:43because there's no oversight.

00:50Many people think that these horses live in Central Park

00:53and they're frolicking on the grass.

00:56Not at all.

00:57They are never touching grass.

01:00After a whole day of being worked relentlessly,

01:02the horses have to go through the worst of New York City midtown traffic

01:08to get to these multi-level old buildings

01:11where they then are placed in these tiny, tiny stalls.

01:15It's like they're prisoners in some kind of labor camp.

01:18The way the system is set up makes it very difficult to save any of these horses.

01:27It's important to understand that this is a private business.

01:30The owners of these horses have complete control over them.

01:34There's no independent outside vets ever checking on these horses.

01:38The reason it's a miracle when we are able to rescue

01:42because the owners of these horses don't want any truth to come out.

01:47Even when we have offered to purchase them, they refuse.

01:50The only way to identify the carriage horse in New York City is that they have a four-digit hoof ID,

01:57but most of the time, the owner will sand that off before they discard these horses.

02:04That's exactly what would have happened to the horse, Chance, had we not intervened and rescued her.

02:14Chance had been a New York City carriage horse for only a few years,

02:19but in that time, due to the deep neglect,

02:22she was no longer able to make a profit for her owner, so they just got rid of her.

02:27Thankfully, we were able to get Chance and let her finally have a real retirement.

02:34But Whit took months before Chance became the happy, active, alert horse that she is today.

02:46We can't change what happened to Ryder,

02:49but we can use his story to help pass Ryder's law

02:53that would protect all of these other horses that are still suffering on New York City streets

02:58so that we can get them into these rescue sanctuaries and farms

03:01where they can finally be horses.

03:06New York City is one of the last large cities that still has horse carriages.

03:10The people that are involved with this business have a lot of influence.

03:14They have power over people in power.

03:17Right now, the head of the city council, Adrian Adams, has been blocking Ryder's law.

03:22But we do have a lot of momentum on our side.

03:25The majority of New Yorkers, the Central Park Conservancy,

03:29some council members, all of them came out in favor of Ryder's law.

03:34It can seem cliche, but it makes a big impact when your elected official directly hears from you,

03:42whether that's a phone call or an email,

03:44that you're expecting them to do the right thing, pass Ryder's law.

03:47You can never be on the wrong side of history when you're protecting animals.

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