Abused horses



An abused horse



In Panchgani (a hill station near Pune ) there is a place called Table point. Table point is a place where tourists come and ride horses.



There are some beautiful and expensive horses. These horses are well kept and are used for riding. Then there are horses that aren’t very expensive and beautiful. These horses are used for riding and are not very nicely kept. And then there are the horses that pull carts. These horses are very cheap and are horribly kept.

The horses on Table point are often beaten and whipped. They are made to work very hard.

Riding horses





Riding horses are not very nicely kept. They often are sick. They have rashes on the skin. This is often because soap is used to clean them, and soap isn’t good for horses. And in the stables they don’t have proper bedding. So while they sleep they injure themselves.

Cart horses



A horse that pulls a cart

Cart horses are terribly kept. They aren’t expensive and beautiful at all so they aren’t kept well. They aren’t fed well. They don’t have proper bedding in the stables. They have to pull a cart for the full day. When they don’t pull the cart they are whipped.

Cases of ill-treated horses I have seen



A horse who is thin like a skeleton

 I once saw a horse who was tired to pull the cart. The owner had to whip the horse a few times before the tired horse pulled the cart. One horse I saw was tied to the cart and was standing. He couldn’t sit as he was tied to the cart. The horse looked tired of standing. Another horse was tied up. This horse was dreadfully thin. It was a skeleton. Its ribs were poking out. Its bones were poking out. It was injured. It was sick. It had a bruise on the shoulder. Its leg seemed to have wound that was very dirty. This was the worst ill-treated horse I have ever seen.

The same horse who has got a wound in the leg