OT--ATTENTION Equine Therapy Clients & Friends: Call Government Officials

[Guest guest]

I know many of us do or have done Equine Therapy with

our kids, so I thought you'd want to hear about the

news story about which I was just emailed. It has to

do with horses in the US being sent to slaughter in

other countries. Now, I want to stress that it makes

no mention of therapy horses being slaughtered, and I

sincerely doubt that any Equine Therapist would ever

allow one of their horses to end up in such a

situation. I am just bringing this to the attention

of Equine Therapy clients and friends because since

our kids get so much from these animals, I figure the

least we can do is call our government officials, some

of whom are working to stop this.

The full story can be found here:

http://wjz.com/seenon/horse.slaughter.national.2.654406.html

According to the story, " it's estimated more than

100,000 American horses were slaughtered for their

meat in 2007. The torture for many of those horses

begins long before they reach the slaughterhouse. "

These horses are beaten with sticks, canes, whips to

get them on and off transport vehicles, then

electrocuted as many times as it takes to get them

down, finally being strung up by their legs and having

their throats slit.

Apparently, Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski

(mentioned in the story) is one of the co-sponsors of

a bill to stop this. So, here's what you can do with

just a few minutes to stop this...go to

http://www.house.gov/ AND http://www.senate.gov/

find your Congress Person's and Senator's contact info

and call your Congress Person AND Senator and ask them

to support these bills. Calling generally makes more

impact than just emailing. Here is the URL to the

Senate Bill S.311

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:s.00311:

and the URL to the House Bill H.R.503

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.00503:

Our daughter who is now 7 years old, has been

doing Equine Therapy for more than half her life, so I

am doing this to honor all the wonderful horses that

she has ridden over the years, especially in memory of

a sweet old horse named, Dragon, who passed away this

Summer.

Peace be with you!---Nicole Muench Seidel

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said " ...he was the single most optimistic person I'd

ever known. He honestly believed that if people of

good will put their effort in something; if they

worked hard enough, anything was possible... "

 

In my heart, I believe that too!

 

 

 

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