It was very busy early on the horse market final November. Picture: Bart Meesters
MAASDRIEL – The Gelderland faction of the Occasion for the Animals desires to know from the mayor and aldermen of Maasdriel whether or not the municipality will challenge a allow for the Horse Market in Hedel once more this yr.
That is what celebration chairman Lester van der Pluijm writes in a letter to the council. In response to the PvdD, animal welfare on the annual Horse Market in early November remains to be poor. “There’s a failure in supervision of the commerce in stolen animals,” mentioned Van der Pluijm. “Animals are tethered too quick, which means they can not drink, eat or lie down. There are animals with indicators of neglect and intensely skinny animals. The NVWA is absent and there’s no supervision of the welfare (apart from illnesses) of the animals in the course of the market and through transport. Animals have been crushed with a stick and individuals who have been closely inebriated may purchase animals.”
The PvdD has requested an inventory of questions within the letter, together with regarding how the circumstances of the allow are monitored. The faction calls on the municipal council of Maasdriel to not grant a allow for the horse market sooner or later: “Do you agree with us that the welfare of the horses needs to be animal worthy always, and that the circumstances of the horse market ought to progressively be improved? bettering is just not sufficient?”
