Concern for Helping Animals in Israel (CHAI)
Contact: chai_us@cox.netCHAI
began campaigning for an end to horse-drawn carts in Israel after
repeatedly exposing abuse of these animals and rescuing and
rehabilitating some of the worst cases. We have pressed municipal
veterinarians and the police to remove abused horses from their
abusers, written to Mayors of cities around the country, urging them to
enact regulations to protect these animals and to enforce any existing
regulations, and appealed to the Transportation Ministry to ban the
practice. At the request of CHAI's sister charity in Israel, Hakol Chai
(everything lives), the Tel Aviv City Council at last held a hearing to
consider a list of proposed reforms we submitted to them, but the Mayor
continues to decline to take action, despite the recommendation of his
own municipal veterinarian.
Cart horses in Israel haul heavy
carts filled with furniture, rocks from construction sites, watermelons
and other produce for the market. They are malnourished, beaten,
provided with no veterinary care, and abandoned at the end of the
summer to die. Municipal authorities have done little to nothing to
enforce regulations or to remove abused animals from their abusers.
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