Animal cruelty in Kia: Overgrazed horse “hanging” on slope from exhaustion

When the tourists shouted for help, the owner, angry with the people involved, cut the rope on one side and started kicking to get up.

Images of a grazing horse hanging on a mountainside at Gia, exhausted and in vain trying to find water, evoke sadness and disgust.

As the Panhellenic Association for the Protection of HIPPOTHESIS horses, which published the related photos, complained, on a country road on the island, Tzia the horse hung exhausted on a slope, and at first the passing drivers, most of them, thought they were tourists. An accident.

However, as he explains in a related entry, it turned out that “the animal, tied with its legs together and tied to an olive tree next to the slope, bent and hung over the slope, exhausted, looking for water.”

And he continues: “It’s a miracle nothing was broken, or at least we think so, because he would surely have hanged himself there. None of us can feel his pain, frustration and stress as he hangs exhausted for hours after being bound and pasteurized with no access to water or food. “

Its owner was kicking

The annoying part of the case is that, according to the NGO, when the tourists started shouting for help, the owner got angry at the busy people, cut the rope on one side and started kicking it to get up.

The union filed a complaint under current law, seeking the definitive removal of the animals.

“Unfortunately, it is universally known that in Greece horses lived as animals of inferior gods in the Middle Ages, while local organizations made it illegal to tie their legs together, i.e. demanded the continuation of pastura as a means of maintaining livestock production.” , is also mentioned in the notification.