Transporting horses in double-decker trailers is both dangerous and cruel, resulting in significant injuries and even death for horses. These trailers, which are designed for much shorter species such as pigs, fail to provide enough headroom for horses and force them to stand in painfully cramped conditions during long-distance transport. While many states have rightfully banned the use of these trailers to protect horses, and the United States Department of Agriculture has prohibited the use of double-deckers for transporting horses to slaughter, there is no permanent federal law to prevent other horses from being transported this way.

Fortunately, U.S. Representatives Steve Cohen (D-TN), Dina Titus (D-NV) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) have introduced the Horse Transportation Safety Act in Congress to ban the transportation of horses across state lines in “double-decker” trucks or trailers containing two or more levels stacked on top of one another. Now we need you to weigh in and ask your U.S Representative to support this bill!

What You Can Do (today, please!)

Call your U.S. Representative and urge them to cosponsor the Horse Transportation Safety Act, H.R 4241. You can call the capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 to be directed. It takes just a minute and all you have to say is:

“Hello, I am a constituent, and I'm calling to ask you to please cosponsor the Horse Transportation Safety Act, H.R 4241, to protect horses from being transported in dangerous double-decker trucks and trailers. Thank you.”

Follow up your call with an email by personalizing and sending the below message!