At 22:07:50 on 13.05.10, JessAndGrenville123 wrote:
I think it is cruel and can't seem to get my head round why horsey people go to see horses tormented, especially the bronco's, they tie a strap around the flank to make them buck and tighten it before they let it loose hense why they keep bucking after they get shot of the rider, and the electric probes are ok occasionally like an electric fence but constant means of control? what? What is everyone elses view?
At 02:44:55 on 14.05.10, kibby wrote:
im not saying i agree with rodeos but obviously you havnt been behind the shoots.. those flank straps are more irritating then they painfull and restricting. the cowboys want their horses to buck and buck well, which means the flank straps can not be too tight as this would be restrictive.. i remember meeting a bronc one day from a rodeo string.. quietest horse i had ever seen on the ground but get on him and bloody hell that thing knew his job..
At 15:24:31 on 14.05.10, Sophiee wrote:
Hmm, I honestly would rather watch a rodeo than a hurdle race.. I think galloping horses at massive, solid jumps isn't very..umm... nice. Of course horses love galloping and jumping, mostly, but the amount of horses that die, or are treated badly is phenominal. Although I think forcing a horse to buck by means of irratation or pain is a bit mean, I think it gives the horse a bad impression of us humans and if they're young they'll probably turn out to be really nervous :/ Saying that the idiots that do it are likely to get hurt which I think is karma in a way :) Cows are more fun to watch, they just have a neck strap which is less cruel I think.. but it's still annoying a living thing...
At 21:30:05 on 14.05.10, JessAndGrenville123 wrote:
Just to point out racing isn't as cruel as people say my horse raced for 7 years over fences never ever falling and it was the steeple chase not hurdles, also my friend gemma works at a race yard and has never had a horse put down on the track in all the 10 years working there. Back to the rodeo's though a journalist videoed 5 deaths of horses and 3 deaths of the bulls in one day at one event but he was unable to document more than one. Here is the one they were allowed to show. Actually it shows a few of them on one video ignore the bit at the beginning but most of it is true, the rodeo bit certainly is.
At 21:32:30 on 14.05.10, JessAndGrenville123 wrote:
by the way all those clips were from one well respected rodeo
At 21:36:21 on 14.05.10, JessAndGrenville123 wrote:
oh and about the strap i do know what it does and the flank is the most sensitive part of a horses skin its like someone pinching (really tight) a really sensitive spot or ticklish spot on us.
At 00:45:14 on 15.05.10, ToriSilverson wrote:
i agree with jess, charlie is really sensitive on that part of his flanks and i cant imagine what hed do if i put a strap around there. im pretty sure like kibby said there are good rodeos but most look terrible. and like any area of horseriding accidents happen, and sadly there are deaths...
At 11:12:27 on 17.05.10, kibby wrote:
if you are going to bring up deaths look at the eventing first.. I'm sorry i grew up at a place that was huge on rodeos. and there were the idiots there but most of them were lovely farmer kids that wanted a weekend out.. maybe its different in australia i don't know..
At 20:44:54 on 17.05.10, JessAndGrenville123 wrote:
Yeah it is generally the american rodeos that are awful i mean barrel racing and roping is fine but the cattle wrestling, bronco riding and the wild horse races etc are just cruel and i know the death rate is high in eventingg but i know no event that had 10 horses die in one day (havn't looked so could be little more or less but it was around 10) and about 7 cattle.
