Seems a bit extreme - what do you think?

there is and has been since the dawn of time a horse and carriage in one of our local towns used for tourist trips around the town. Few year ago a woman went up to the driver and started shouting abuse about how cruel he was forcing his horse to work all day with no rest etc and how she'd seen it working that morning at it was still out mid afternoon etc.
Carriage driver listened calmy and quietly and when she finished he softly asked her ''madam, can you remember the colour of the horse you saw me driving this morning?'' Yes, different horses.
 
I don't think it's a great way to keep them, but there are worse places to be. There are competition yards like this, and their horses probably get less exercise.
 
Not sure where it is, but many of the carriage horses are involved in really bad accidents, where they are driven on very busy main roads. I don't like to think of horses working hard seven days a week (if they do) and to never have freedom. But that is the life for many horses. It's not all green fields and petting.
 
It's not a great life to be fair. It is a bit sad that they never get to run in a field and eat grass. And those stables are still quite small, even on the good video. But it happens all over the place with many types of horses. In fact apparently the spanish rising school of vienna keep their horses stabled most of the year and they just have a holiday for a couple of months out at grass.

Also, i'm sure there are good stables. And i'm sure there are shocking ones too. Same as everywhere. They probably need to be checked more strictly to ensure that they are all of a good standard.

I don't agree with horses being worked 7 days per week in such heavy traffic. We all know how many accidents there are in the country with relatively few cars.

There's worse cases of cruelty out there though that would probably make a bigger difference if attention was brought to them.
 
ok the stables are fair small, and they are worked 7 days a week (dont know for how many hours) but they are well fed and cared for.
I am sure there are many horses out there that would swap their neglected life stood in a field for the life of a carriage horse
 
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