Welcome back to our blog! It is week 10 this week!
I don't know about you but I had mixed feelings for this week's stream as I'm excited that we featured a special speaker this week at the same time heavy while we discuss about animal abuse.
For those that watched our live, you already know who are our mystery speaker is 😉
YES! It is Gallop Stable!
However, that aside, sadly I'm not making a podcast like Jonathan and Aina cause I don't have a microphone. Although, I did try using my phone and earphones, it doesn't sound clear with all the background noises.
So, just in case you missed our live stream this week, let me fill you in in this blog.
Gallop Stable began modestly in 2003 in Pasir Ris Park with 13 friendly ponies. Their quest began when they realized that there were few possibilities for the general population to experience horses and horseback riding.
The majority of the horses at Gallop Stable are ex-racehorses that come here for a second chance at life. Many of us are unaware that numerous young and healthy racehorses are retired from racing each year due to a lack of aptitude or injury. These horses frequently suffer terrible consequences when they have no else to go and are no longer useful to their existing owners.
Gallop Stable provides these horses with a second shot in life by retraining them for riding activities and bringing delight to all of our students and riders. Horses that are unable to participate in riding activities owing to racing injuries or an inappropriate temperament are also given a home here, where they may spend their days out in the lush meadows, enjoying hugs from the employees and customers at Gallop.
As a result, Gallop Stable has given inexpensive riding and an easier method for everyone to get near to horses and ponies without having to worry about membership fees, monthly subscriptions, or royal charges since our inception.
Gallop Stable has subsequently extended to Bukit Timah at the former turf club stables, adding several riding arenas and over 200 stalls, making it one of Singapore's largest public riding venues.
So if you ever get to visit Singapore after this pandemic, please feel free to visit them! ⬇
Gallop Stable presently operates two Singapore stables (Horsecity @ Bukit Timah and Pasir Ris Park). They provide a range of horse-related activities for everyone, young and old, including riding lessons, pony rides and feeding, trail rides, riding camps, and much more!
We did also watched a few videos of animal abuse happening/happened around the globe, but let's not get into the gory details of what we watched.
We just wanna raise awareness on the animal abuse that is happening around the world that we don't even know about.
For example, how foie gras was made.
In the foie gras industry, birds are kept in tiny pens or cages that are often so small that the birds can't even turn around. The torment of force feeding begins at the age of 8 to 10 weeks for the birds and lasts around four weeks. Workers put metal tubes down the birds' mouths and stuff their stomachs and it is performed several times every day. The birds' livers expand up to 10 times their normal size as a result of the force feeding. Force feeding can also lead to organ failure, beak and throat damage, and pneumonia in birds. The wire cages can injure the animals' feet and legs, and the extreme confinement is emotional agony for these typically curious and sensitive creatures. The birds are killed at the end of this period.
I prefer not to go into details on the other animal cruelty that we discussed in the live stream, cause it sure is a heavy topic that I wouldn't wanna be reminded of.
Let's clean our palette with more picture of the horses from Gallop Stables! They have a total of 85 horses and ponies as of now!
Here are more of the horses!
And ponies!
All in all, we would just like to say that if you see an animal being harmed or suffering symptoms of abuse, contact a local animal welfare organization at once. Reporting abuse is the first step toward assisting our animal friends. Furthermore, increasing public knowledge is the quickest approach to encourage the avoidance of animal mistreatment.
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