Carriage Horse Drinks Filthy Fetid Water From Street (Video)

[UPDATED BELOW] In the ongoing saga between carriage horse proponents and opponents, an anonymous animal rights videographer who would not reveal his or her name because they do "a lot of undercover work" on behalf of Win Animal Rights has uploaded video to their YouTube channel, nyc4animals, showing a Central Park carriage horse drinking filthy and fetid "water" from the street. The video was filmed a few days ago at the hack line on 59th Street and 5th Avenue. When the driver spotted the videographer filming, he "pulled the horse away from the filthy water." According to the eyewitness, there was also an empty water trough nearby. The trough is supposed to contain clean water. "If you look inside of it on any given day," they wrote, "you will see it filled with garbage."

PETA Responds To Video Of Dog Killing Rats

PETA has viewed the video of Washington Square Parks' Rat Killer and NYC The Blog spoke to Martin Mersereau, Director, Emergency Response Division at PETA, on the telephone. As reported by Gothamist, Phil Abramson, a New York City Parks Department spokesman, said: "I’m not familiar with any regulations about killing rats." Martin says their most certainly are, and sent a statement to NYC The Blog:

Setting dogs upon rats is depraved, sadistic, and entirely illegal. It constitutes an explicit violation of New York’s anti-cruelty laws...