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Under the law, mistreatment of animals is a criminal offence

Jan 18, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
Asking questions will help us to do things better.
Thank you to Mr Wright (GSPCA inspector) for putting the suffering horse out of his agony last Friday afternoon and for doing it with compassion and courage. Thank you, Kaieteur News for reporting the cruelty. There has been outrage from people who read your article and several individuals have said they are now willing to report abuse and to intervene. I would like to make one correction. In your article, the questions that I asked were attributed to Ms Manbodh. What I indicated to your journalist was that this appalling episode should cause us to ask:
(1) Why does the GSPCA not have a system in place to euthanize horses using the more humane method of lethal injection?
(2) Why does the GSPCA not have a system in place to give anaesthetic to ease an animal’s suffering while he is waiting to be euthanized?
If the GPSCA is not able to overcome the challenges to set up these systems, then what do we need to do to solve the problem? Questions should not be interpreted as criticism. They are requests for information so that we identify a problem correctly. They are lines of inquiry so that we can do things better. I hope that the answers to these questions will help us to build a kinder and more compassionate society.
Under the Summary Jurisdiction Act, ill-treating a horse carries a jail sentence of six months and wounding a horse carries a sentence of eighteen months. Let us hope that the police arrest the man responsible for this horse’s suffering and that the court imposes the maximum penalty.
Melinda Janki

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