Kendall Jenner, Alicia Silverstone and Ariel Winter express outrage over horse collapse in NYC
dailymail.co.ukA slew of celebrities, including Kendall Jenner and Alicia Silverstone, are sharing in their disgust over the video showing a horse that collapsed on the street while pulling a carriage in New York City on Wednesday.The New York City Police Department responded to the incident that happened near Ninth Avenue and 45th Street in Manhattan around 5 p.m., according to People.But before officers arrived a video obtained by NBC News shows the driver of the carriage allegedly trying to pull the distressed animal up off the ground and hitting him, yelling, 'Get up!
Come on! Get up! Get up!' as he remained on the ground.The driver allegedly pulled the harness and hit the horse with the reins, but the animal puts his head down before eventually leaning over on his side.
Tense moments: Video of a horse that collapsed while pulling a carriage in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood of New York City on Wednesday has some people outraged Celebrity outrage: Kendall Jenner, Alicia Silverstone and Ariel Winter are among the growing number of celebrities to express their outrage overOnce the horse, named Ryder, laid on his side on the pavement, the driver was forced to remove his carriage, all while a crowd began to gather along the street in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood.Mounted officers with the NYPD arrived at the scene and hosed down the horse down to cool it off.
Those officers then took the animal to a nearby stable where it received 'proper veterinary care', and was awake as of Wednesday night.Christina Hansen, a spokesperson for a union that represents carriage drivers, told NBC New York that Ryder received a preliminary diagnosis of Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis (EPM), a neurological disease caused by possum droppings..
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