The sad fate of Dutch cart pulling dogs around 1920 in color [A.I. enhanced & colorized]

This film addresses the sad fate of working dogs in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 1900s. Around 1900, 80,000 dogs were out every day to assist their owners. The dogs walked in front of or under the cart. They were often poorly cared for and had to pull far too heavy loads. At the time, the government saw nothing in the ban on the use of the dog as pulling power, but eventually did set conditions for the cart and the dog. A group of people took the fate of the animals very seriously and moved into the country to alert owners of draft dogs to these conditions. They founded the “Anti Trekhonden Bond“ (Society) in 1912. The work of the directors of the Bond was successful. The owners realized that it was important to take good care of their animals. It also became clear that people were forced to work with a dog because they did not have sufficient financial means to purchase and care for a horse or donkey. That changed when the ’bakfiets’ (cargo bike) was introduced