The City of Montreal is planning to save the famed carriage horses from the glue factory. The city announced yesterday it will offer to buy the animals for $1,000.00 each and give them to the SPCA, which will work with a refuge to find them new homes. The carriages, called caleches, will be taken off the roads by the end of the year. A council member noted a lot of the owners started to talk about how they would send their animals to a slaughterhouse and other locations.
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Retiring Montreal caleche horses to find new homes
CTV Ottawa
Published Thursday, April 11, 2019 5:28AM EDT
A horse drawing a caleche, or carriage, is seen in Montreal on Nov. 24, 2018. (CTV Montreal)