A SEASIDE donkey experience boss is so concerned about obese young children he now weighs them right before they climb on to the saddle.
John Nuttall, 66, explained children ended up requested to action on a set of scales if they appeared to weigh about 6st.
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The dad of four, whose spouse and children has been running in Lincolnshire for additional than 100 a long time, mentioned: “Some are just way too big to ride a donkey.
“The welfare of the animals has to arrive very first.”
But Being overweight Health and fitness Alliance director Katharine Jenner said: “It is completely unacceptable to weigh a little one in general public and then say they can not go on a ride.”
She additional: “It’s the harmful food and drink that they have on their plates, in their large streets, in their faculties.
“That is in which we should really be concentrating our consideration to try and improve what children are staying given, relatively than embarrassing them about their sizing.”
But John, who operates on shorelines in Skegness and Cleethorpes, mentioned: “People are being familiar with.
“It’s about the donkeys.
“It’s a indicator of the moments.
“Years ago you hardly ever experienced that.
“Kids had been healthy and healthful.”
John, whose business operates on beach locations in Skegness and Cleethorpes, has place up weighing stations on the sand.
Riders ought to also be under 4ft 7in and aged ten or beneath.
