J&K: Jammu Animal Husbandry Department, PETA India seize 140 illegal spiked bits in Katra, Shiv Khori

Jammu, Oct 1 (UNI) In a significant awareness-cum-enforcement drive, Animal Husbandry Department, Jammu with the support from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals India (PETA India), have seized 140 metal spiked (or "thorn") bits used to control horses through pain in Katra town of Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir. As per the official handout, sending a strong message that tourist ride operations, hauling goods and other activities must not involve such cruelty to animals, with active support from PETA India teams, the AHD, Jammu officials confiscated the torture devices, which are deliberately designed to cut into the sensitive…