“What is Carriage Operator Hiding?”

In response to a Boston Globe story which stated that a carriage operator buried her horse before state authorities could investigate the cause of death, TheirTurn subscriber Mickey Kramer submitted a letter to the editor. Coincidentally, The Globle published Mr. Kramers’s letter about this beast of burden on Labor Day: “Considering Freddie supposedly got a clean bill of health three weeks earlier, it seems disingenuous, if not suspicious, of owner Sally Sutherland to bury the horse she claims to love before finding out a cause of death. What, if anything, is there to hide?”

Freddy spent almost 30 years working to make money for his owners before dying on the street. They worked him until the very end, depriving him of a humane retirement on a tranquil pasture where he could enjoy his final years. Some “traditions” should not be preserved, and urban carriage rides, which are inhumane, unsafe and anachronistic, are one of them. Learn more about the plight of the carriage horses and what you can do to help.