Retiring Montreal caleche horses to find new homes

A horse drawing a caleche, or carriage, is seen in Montreal on Nov. 24, 2018. (CTV Montreal)

The City of Montreal is planning to save the famed carriage horses from the glue factory. The city announced yesterday it will offer to buy the animals for $1,000.00 each and give them to the SPCA, which will work with a refuge to find them new homes. The carriages, called caleches, will be taken off the roads by the end of the year. A council member noted a lot of the owners started to talk about how they would send their animals to a slaughterhouse and other locations.