Horses get Pension

You could call it Horses pension! Horses retiring from a West Bengal police training college now have a new home to spend their twilight years with other comforts.

Fourteen ageing animals that have served for years have not ended up pariahs or been slaughtered like their predecessors. Instead the green acres of Ashari, an animal hospital-cum-shelter on the eastern fringes of Kolkata, run by Maneka Gandhi's People for Animal (PFA), is now their home.

"They have served for years. Now it is only human to pension them off instead of slaughtering them after they turn infirm. So we have welcomed them in our shelter," Debasis Chakrabarti, as per the managing trustee of PFA Calcutta. Read more...................Retirement home for police horses in Bengal

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