What happened to horses between 1900 and 1930? Basically, when horses were replaced by bicycles for the poor and cars for the well off? I always assumed it was a gradual thing & as your horses got older you'd realise it made more sense to buy a bike/car as appropriate and not replace them, but I guess there could have been a few years where horses were slaughtered and it just wasn't talked about because it's a bit gross.
Well, working horses were routinely slaughtered when they became too old to work anyway. Had a quick look around and according to online sources the average streetcar horse had a life expectancy of only two years anyway so I guess "natural" wastage would just take care of it. "In 1880, New York carted away nearly 15,000 dead equines from its streets, a rate of 41 per day."
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