Dear Editor,
On New Year’s day 2008 I watched a horse cart overloaded with concrete blocks. The load was so heavy that the horse had to strain every minute to carry the burden along the Grove EBD public road, so much so the cart driver had to help pull at one point.
When I called out to the cart driver telling him the animal was unable to pull the load and that the police should be passing and see what he was doing to the animal he became abusive.
My son who happens to be the grandson of the late C.F. Torrezao who was Chief Officer of the BGRSPCA told me to leave the horse cart man alone since when we stopped being a colony animal protection was also stopped. My son is probably right because what I saw yesterday I see all the time in and out of the city including next door to me in Grove EBD which is a lumber yard and I see the animals that fetch lumber from that place. Many of them suffer all kinds of cruelty like overload, lack of water etc.
I know there is the GSPCA but that appears to be just a clinic to treat sick animals. When it was the RSPCA officers went out to prevent cruelty to animals.
Yours faithfully,
W.P. George
