Horse exhausted from the heat collapses to the ground while he was pulling a carriage

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25 July 2021 He did not make it and suddenly a horse, pulling a carriage for the tour of the city of Palermo, collapsed to the ground. He didn't make it due to the fatigue and the great heat. The column showed 40 degrees. The video shot by a guy has made the rounds on the web causing a lot of indignation.

Enrico Rizzi, animal rights activist, wrote a note to the prefect of Palermo asking for an intervention to avoid repeating these scenes in the capital. They serve, Rizzi writes, "adequate shelter shady spots, water supplies, controls for the circulation in the warmest hours, controls on movement in the midst of the chaotic city streets.

“As citizens - writes Rizzi - we can only be outraged by this total absence of the institutions, by respect for the life of poor living beings exploited to the utmost and we ask that the Prefect finally open his eyes to this dramatic situation and constantly. The mistreatment of animals - concludes Rizzi - is a crime envisaged by the penal code which punishes precisely those who subject an animal to torture, fatigue and unjustified suffering ".