Tortured horses
I agree "Helping Humphrey" is only a story, but it gives a very distorted version of life. Horses do not naturally want to work for humans.
In all their miserable lives, horses, especially carriage-pulling horses cannot do anything natural like running free in open ground. Instead, they live cold, lonely lives, often ill treated (beaten, kicked and abused) by their owners. They work by fear of punishment or torture.
But the story was right in one respect — horse-owners do abandon their horses when they become too old for work. This is punishable under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PCA) Act.
Girish Ananth,
X B, Bhavan's Varuna Vidya
laya,
Thrikkakara, Kochi ,
Kerala
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