{"id":27902,"date":"2012-11-12T09:04:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T14:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=27902"},"modified":"2012-11-13T14:25:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T19:25:55","slug":"petition-to-stop-abuse-of-carriage-horses-in-the-bahamas-gets-world-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/11\/petition-to-stop-abuse-of-carriage-horses-in-the-bahamas-gets-world-attention","title":{"rendered":"Petition To Stop Abuse Of Carriage Horses In The Bahamas Gets Worldwide Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More than 1,000 people from around the world have signed a petition calling on the Bahamian government to \u2018stop the abuse\u2019 of the country\u2019s carriage horses.<\/p>\n

The petition\u2019s creator and local horse trainer, Paula Caruana said she doesn\u2019t necessarily want to ban the surrey industry but simply have it better regulated by the government.<\/p>\n

Ms Caruana\u2019s internet-based petition was inspired by the recent public death of a surrey horse which outraged many and spurred calls for an investigation into the working conditions of the horses.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old female horse, named Bloody Mary, was drawing a yellow and blue surrey near the corner of Dowdeswell and Christie Streets on Tuesday afternoon when it collapsed.<\/p>\n

Witnesses said tourists were in the carriage and following the horse\u2019s collapse, the animal was tied to the back of a truck and dragged out of the street \u2013 reportedly at the insistence of the police.<\/p>\n

Ms Caruana said she never expected her petition, which has gathered signatures from Vietnam to Poland, to get as big as it has.<\/p>\n

Her petition asks the government to \u2018stop this brutality\u2019 and enforce stricter legislation, such as an Animal Rights Bill, to regulate the conditions of the industry and the health of the animals.<\/p>\n

The petition also criticises the downtown Nassau route the carriages take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over 1,000 people from around the world signed a petition urging the Bahamian government to \u2018stop the abuse\u2019 of carriage horses in The Bahamas. The petition seeks proper regulation, not to ban surreys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[352,63,606,163,33,73],"class_list":["post-27902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-abuse","tag-animals","tag-carriage-horses","tag-society","tag-tourism","tag-travel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}