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

["hope lundquist" <wwho20@hotmail.com>]

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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