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PETA Saves Tigger and Grace and Hundreds More Horses

Issue 1|Winter 2025

In India, ponies struggle to pull overloaded two-wheeled carts (called tongas), even in the monsoon rain and scorching heat and even when they’re desperate for a few hours’ rest. That was gentle Ms. Tigger’s plight, until PETA-supported Animal Rahat spotted her. PETA India persuaded her owner to retire her and six other ponies as a swap for electric carts. Shortly after arriving at one of Animal Rahat’s sanctuaries, Ms. Tigger delivered a healthy daughter, Freedom’s Grace, and the two are happy and safe.

PETA has been helping horses since our inception. In 1984, we exposed a hideous slaughter operation in Texas that trucked in tens of thousands of horses from all over the US. The animals were caked in frozen mud, and some starved to death before reaching their destination. That shameful operation was shut down, and it’s now illegal to slaughter horses in the US.

Forty years later, in 2024, acting on PETA’s complaint of horse doping and deaths, Texas authorities raided unsanctioned horse racing track Carril Mochomos and arrested 14 people for organized criminal activity, money laundering, unlawful racing, and other offenses. Even at sanctioned equestrian events – like Britain’s grueling Grand National Festival, Australia’s Melbourne Cup, even the Olympics – horses are crippled and killed. Hundreds of horses die on US racetracks every year. PETA entities are securing prosecutions, protesting at racing events, rescuing former racers, and gaining media attention that changes public opinion.

PETA India achieved a hard-won ban on Mumbai’s Victorias, ornate horsedrawn carriages, and is determined that Kolkata’s carriages be banned, too. PETA India recently rescued an abandoned foal and his mother – who had open wounds and was covered in blood – from an area where carriage rides are peddled. On to the pyramids of Giza. After watching PETA Asia’s video of horses (and camels) being beaten bloody at the tourist site when too exhausted to carry on, leading travel companies stopped promoting animal rides.

And our undercover investigation and vigorous campaign convinced Budweiser to stop amputating its famous Clydesdales’ tails.

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