Petition to ban horse log-pulling competitions in Croatia
With my signature, I join the request that the Animal Protection Act prohibits the use of horses for log-pulling competitions, the so-called ¹traparijada or ¹lajs. Such competitions include beating the horses daily in the stables as part of training, while the horses are beaten by hand, poked with metal spiked sticks or even whipped until they bleed during the competitions themselves. That is why they are already illegal and violate the provisions of the Criminal Code and the Animal Protection Act. However, since the veterinary inspection cannot issue approval for such competitions because it cannot supervise every stable and every competition (most of them are unregistered), the abuse of horses will not stop until the causes are solved, that is until horse log-pulling competitions are banned.
Additional explanation of the petition.