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Originally Posted by IrishSpring2013
another horse dies?? how many have to die.. how many animals have to be needlessly tied up,.. Roped up..for our entertainment before this GARBAGE is banned.. what year are we in..
ive seen videos of the cowboys jamming horses with metal rods to piss them off.. make them really buck.. Sickens me.. Should sicken everyone one..
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There are other sides to this. I'm extremely protective of animals. Insanely so. But I've also been around race horses and stampede horses. Running around a track isn't inherently dangerous for horses. Mis-steps happen. Thoroughbreds love to run. The ones you see at the stampede literally crave the action, the competition and the race. They love it. I've seen fields full of thoroughbreds that don't love it. They can run but they don't want to so they don't. They live out their days eating grass and doing other stuff at the ranches.
Similarly bucking horses at the stampede are a few among thousands. No one is poking them with prods. They're worth upwards of 250k each and love kicking the crap out of people. They're bred for it, are trained for it and love doing it. Again, the stampede ranch is full of other horses that don't.
Steer ropers, wrestlers can pound sand. But these horses have very rich lives. You want to turn all these horses into fox meat? Ban rodeo events.