Stop The NYPD From Abusing Horses.

Occupy Wall Street activists clash with police every week; many are injured and media attention to the cause grows but what seems to have been forgotten is the trauma that the incidents cause police horses.

The NYPD are riding horses into stressful and chaotic situations. Thousands of screaming activists waving signs and banners clash with armored police with pepper spray and bull horns and police horses are caught in the middle. This is not an environment that horses should be forced into on a daily basis.

Horses in these situations become extremely agitated and all the stress and excitement can lead to serious injuries. In 2010, the NYPD euthanized two horses for abscessed and swollen leg injuries which made it nearly impossible for them to travel. 

The stress on these horses is not only physical but mental. There are numerous cases around the world of police horses becoming so overwhelmed during mass protests that they become uncontrollable, trampling and biting police and protesters. The only solution is to ask police to end the use of police horses.

Help convince the NYPD to not use police horses when confronting crowds at Occupy Wall Street demonstrations by signing this petition today.