Elderly Horse, Abused for Years, Saved and Taken to New Home

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.care2.com/causes/abused-elderly-horse-saved-from-harm-in-traffic-taken-to-sanctuary.html#ixzz2WF3tEhj8

by Laura Simpson June 13, 2013 9:30 pm

The Canadian Voice for Animals Foundation in Argentina recently seized a horse in the middle of city traffic, and not a moment too soon. The 20-year-old horse, now named Emilia, was being whipped by her ‘owner’ in the street because she could not move fast enough under the massive load he had placed on her cart. Thanks to the fast action of some bystanders, Emilia is now learning that the grass really is greener on the other side of the fence.

“We arrived on scene within minutes,” explained Coqui Montiel, who leads the Canadian Voice for Animals Foundation’s Argentina sanctuary in Entre Rios. “A judge was called and he gave us permission to take Emilia into custody.”



The judge’s actions alone are an indicator of the Canadian Voice for Animals Foundation’s unusual relationship with local authorities. While in so many parts of the world, it is nearly to impossible to seize an animal on the spot or to even persuade authorities to begin to build a case for taking action against cruelty, action here was swift and decisive.


FULL story at link.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. How good is that!

I hope the "owner" faces charges.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

2. K & R

On the way to the Greatest list @ # 5!

[freshwest]

3. Thanks for this story, it's a good way to start the weekend.

[left on green only]

4. I used to have a job caring for the horses on a ranch

They are truly magnificent creatures. I treated them with dignity. One of my rewards from them was that they would always come to me whenever I called them; even when their heads were buried in a feed manger. Their owner was intimidated by their size and their power. I saw that quality as just another part of their inherent beauty. Alas, I was fired because she became jealous of their affection for me. In my view, one of the greatest sins of mankind is the way that we have always treated horses.

[Cerridwen]

7. Imagine the number sent to slaughter with the advent of the "horse-less"

carriage in the US.

Nothing but tools sent to slaughter after they've served their purpose.

It still happens. Now it's sent to slaughter when not making any more money for their owners. Think racing. Where not-yet-developed young horses are expected to race and are "dog food" if they don't earn their keep.

Wow. That sounds like what we do to poor people.

Such a country.

[Cerridwen]

9. Killed by spread sheet or by starvation or by neglect?

Slow painful death by lack of health care? Quick painful death by lack of work safety regulation? The long slow death of being denied access to education, arts, life's pleasures?

Which do you figure is more humane? Quick? Slow? Pain? Starvation? Life long suffering of watching dreams die as one dies twenty years before ones time?

The previous was about humans.

Which horse told you slaughter was better than dying on a battlefield? Horse slaughter; the way we do it; is in-humane. If we must discard that which we create for our use, can't we at least try to make it humane? Silly of me, I know.

Perhaps, your time in a slaughterhouse made you immune to compassion. Naw. I'd be more inclined to think it would make me numb to the suffering of others; especially if those others aren't human. But then, that's what spread sheets are for.

[Egalitarian Thug]

10. What a thoroughly disgusting reply. I'm not going to detract any further from this

otherwise beautiful thread by going into detail, but you clearly have no idea what you're talking about.

[A HERETIC I AM]

11. Oh, for fucks sake.,

[Curmudgeoness]

6. Sounds like the story of Black Beauty

but with justice on the right side. I have to admit that Argentina has it all over the US in treating animal abuse. Try this same thing here and it could take months.....and too many times it doesn't even happen or the people get their animals back.

Good for Emilia. May her last years be peaceful.

[BrotherIvan]

12. Made me think of Black Beauty too

What a wonderful story this is.

[flvegan]

13. When bystanders stop being bystanders, truly good things happen.

[ninehippies]

14. Never too late

for an old 'nag' to be shown some love. Sweet.

[matt819]

15. That's wonderful, of course

But my 20-something horses object to being called elderly.

[ReRe]

16. Poor Baby!

... She so deserves to be treated like a queen from here on out. One wonders how she is even still alive. She's what I call a "liver." No matter what has happened, she has miraculously lived through it.

[Egalitarian Thug]

17. K&R. Thanks for posting. n/t