REAL rodeo--graphic

Reining Girl -- Yeah, my grandpa's horses were mutts. I know some horses that were bred to buck never turned out, but all of my grandpas did, LOL. which is a good thing, bad thing, because there were lots of people looking for horses, but all his wanted to do was buck. Some of them are still that way. HIs were all qh/drafts. And boy, were they wild. They were never halter broken, but they weren't truly "mean". I mean, yeah, occasionally you'd get a mean one, but usually, they were just really resistant to training, and couldn't be broke. They did learn their job though, and I think they liked it.

Like a lot of you guys, I'm not sure about the wild horse race. We have one at the rodeo here, and I've never seen anything that looks like abuse. usually the team that wins is the slow, calm guys, anyway. The worst thing I ever saw was that they threw a horse down hard but it evened up the score a little when he pegged the cowboy in the knees and got back up LOL. Besides, they got DQed. There's some pretty strict rules about it, at least here, and the one here doesn't seem to be abusive to me.

Hahahah! This stuff makes me laugh. It is all biased crap from biased people. Rodeos are not like that. I know. I am in them every weekend. Lowlifes who make videos like that spend hours finding only bad evidence of rodeo that they can and mixing it all together.

It's BS.

^ Yep. That's YouTube for ya! ;)

I'll take a trip to the rodeo (when I come to America) and see if this exists.
Apart from the fact what is in that video is vile and the guys who are doing it need the same done to them.
*my good I'd love to trip one of them people, sit on them while they're being carted off with a broken THEN kick them in the broken leg...maybe get my dog to fart in their face for good measure*
Like, WTF. That guy BIT the horses ear. He actually bit it while it was down.
Is there something wrong with these people, or what?
Please explain because I don't see how someone can laugh and joke about it. It still happened, to that animal, what? Do people just not care?
I'm finding it hard to understand.

Finally someone that sees what I do.

Nice to see that someone agrees. I don't understand how someone cannot see the harm in rodeos, but I guess they just don't care to the full extent if they get some kind of entertainment out of it.

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Because it doesn't happen in 99% of the rodeos that are run. Backyard rodeos? Sure.. sometimes, but not in the well-run ones.

OHHH WHAT THE F%$.
SHARK/PETA idiots are at it again...

o my dear god, at BACKYARD rodeos, key word BACKYARD, these people dont care very much about the live stock all they want is entertainment. But at professional rodeos, the livestock are treated incredibly well, becuase those animals are there liveli hood!!! I wish the makers of these frikin videos would just go away!!!!! They give rodeo a bad reputation. REAL RODEOS ARE NOT LIKE THIS!!!!!

omg did you se the one video they made called rodeo family values? all of that is just a load of crap to manipulate city slickers into giving them money to "help shut down these abusive and inhumane operations" i hate peta but shark is close to the top on my list too.

Yeah, PETA are the people who shut down horses going for slaughter and made the horse economy crap! Plus the regular economy. I don't know about y'all, but I wanted to make a living training and giving riding lessons to people, and breeding excellent quality horses, but, with things as they are now, that dream goes out the window!

People just need common sense. Seriously. So let me guess, all y'all that think rodeo is cruel are vegetarians and don't drink or eat dairy products? Think of all the hamburger we would have....