Image found on Facebook April 14th, 2024. Unknown photographer.
Council wearing blinders on horse carriages
The Victoria Horse Alliance is condemning Victoria city council’s decision to renew the horse carriage companies leases despite ongoing documented welfare concerns with the industry. On Thursday March 14th, council voted at the Committee of the Whole to extend the horse carriage lease agreement 6 years until 2030. It was affirmed at the April 4th council meeting by a vote …
Tally-Ho Owner Allegations Unfounded and False.
This post is written in response to allegations made in an op-ed piece by Donna Friedlander, owner of Tally-Ho Carriage Tours, in the Times Colonist July 24th, 2020. For five years the Victoria Horse Alliance has been opposing the exploitation of horses in Victoria under the Animal Alliance of Canada. In that time, we have acted peacefully in our demonstration, …
Times Colonist letter to the editor and rebuttal.
For the past several weeks, Victoria Horse Alliance has been holding peaceful demonstrations where the horse carriages operate at the corner of Menzies and Belleville st. A letter writer to the Times Colonist wrote in on July 21st, claiming we are “harassing” the businesses and stressing the drivers. Below you will find the original letter and our rebuttal. Thank you …
Horse Carriage Ban Update 2020
The last update we gave was as Victoria City Council passed a resolution at a Committee of the Whole (CotW) meeting last summer to have staff investigate what would be involved in potentially phasing out and banning the horse carriages in Victoria. This resolution was based on the BC SPCA recommendations from May 2018 to council which proposed prohibiting horse …
Victoria Horse Carriages: Summer of Distress
The horses working for Victoria horse carriage industry are regularly in distress and danger on the streets of Victoria, B.C.. In the summer months, this is exacerbated as they face increased pedestrian and motor vehicle traffic, and higher temperatures. Incidents were regularly witnessed in the small fraction of time we were able to view them. We documented what we could …