Save Healthy Racehorses in Puerto Rico from Unnecessary Euthanasia
- by: Mary Lang
- recipient: Hon. José Orlando Fabré Laboy, Secretary of Agriculture in Puerto Rico
Over 400 horses are killed every year because their owners cannot afford to pay the upkeep for a horse that won't make them money from winning races. Unlike in the mainland United States, there are no shelters for the horses to stay to avoid an untimely death.
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article.
Secretary Laboy,
We, the undersigned are concerned over the welfare of racehorses in your country. We ask that you may consider allowing some funding to go toward the foundation of a shelter or sanctuary where healthy racehorses can retire instead of being euthanized. We do not feel like it is right to breed horses as if they are a product and then dispose of them when they are no longer practical. Animals are not objects; they are living, breathing, feeling beings that do not deserve such a fate.
Thank you for your time,
