Docked Horses.

Waikato Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1439, 25 April 1914, Page 6

Docked Horses.

The cruel and unnecessary practice of docking horses is drown attention to by a Wellington correspondent, who puts forward a strong plea for the “friend of man.” The following extract is taken from a pamphlet issued by the Royal Society for the Preveniton of Cruelty to Animals in London. —“The|d icking of horses is founded upon ingorance, but having become custom, it has prevailed long after the ignorance has been exposed. There is, in a dog and cat, and nearly all small animals, no of their bodies unreachable by their feet mouth lips, tongue , and teeth. The necessarily more rigid structure of the horse does not permit him to reach all parts of his body in this wav, but Nature has provided a most excellent flycatcher. For this the tail truly is in the horse as made by Nature, a <1 unmutilated by man, and it is th ;■ only weapon with which he can fight ‘flies. ”