Rodeo Terror (YouTube video)

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I came across this accidently when looking for scary stuff (lol) I like being scared...

Hope this hasnt been shown before, its long but worth the watch I think.

Personally, there's two parts that get me going...the man with the ropes against the bars of the pen...and the man with the ears...good god I tell you he would have got the heel of my boot in his chops if I was within 10 feet of him...(sorry it makes me so angry)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzg-zpXik6U
 
Not registered so can't view it.

However, is it just me, but - I fail to understand the point of posts like this. They're (presumably) distressing, and not something the majority of us would want to watch.

Now there of course could be a very valid reason for showing it - so am happy to be enlightened. But don't personally understand.
 
I watched it, it was horrible.
Poor little b*ggers.
The fact they don't even bother shooting the injured ones, just load 'em up and drag 'em off.
Horrible and upsetting.
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cant watch it am afraid not registed!hope it is not to horrible as it may be best that i dont watch it anyway(its not good for me to start crying in work)lol
 
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It's disgusting.I erge people not to look at it as it's very disturbing, how anyone could do those things to an animal,i'd understand if they were in a slaughter house putting an end to it's misery quickly but these people are torturing them and they have a very large audience now i can see American 'cowboys' for what they really are,there a very few 'real' genuine ones left out there by the looks of this video.How anyone can let this happen is beond me.
 
Actually I posted it because I am a person that actually doesnt think ignorance is bliss, I dont think people should think that certain things dont go on just because it makes them uncomfortable to know the facts...

You think you feel bad watching it? Imagine being the poor animal involved in it. I cant stand the attitude of people that cannot face up to the grizly truth, the more people who see it, the more people who might be moved enough by it to do something to stop it happening, be it an email, be it talking about it...whatever. Simply put, people need to face up to the disgusting things going on in the world and deal with them.
Not sweep them under the carpet because they dont fit in our rosy view of life.
 
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I absolutely agree with you. And yes, I suppose I object because it's upsetting.

But how many of us are actually moved to take some kind of action? And what can we usefully do on cases like these in other countries??
 
Perhaps sending an email or whatever wont help. But perhaps it will. 50/50 is good enough odds for me!
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You never know who might look at your post or who might tell a friend of a friend who might tell the right person and something MIGHT be done.

I know its a long shot but I think its worth the bit of pain it puts us through just for that chance.
 
welsh rarebit get off your high horse

if i could go out and shoot the b******s then yes i'd agree - but we can't do anything to stop it, so we're lefet feeling upset and powerless

i think posts like this are a bit odd to be honest-do you get off on upsetting people needlessly?
 
Woa there Teabiscuit. I challenged the original post - and WR is more than entitled to respond to me and I to her.

I'm not sure she is on any horse - high or low, just expressing her views.
 
Im definitely not on my high horse, Im sorry if it seems that way, but so be it - if thats what being passionate about something seems like to you - then fairplay.

Teabiscuit how could you possibly say we cant do anything about it? You dont know that!

Im sure the few people who thought slavery was wrong thought that, but slowly the more people speak up about something they feel is wrong the more people get behind it - who knows what you can do?

Sorry but to me its worthy - so slate me all you like
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Its nothing I cant deal with
 
I agree that it is ignored but IMHO i feel ignorance it better than having to watch things like this when really there is not much that we as individuals can do!
 
But ten individuals makes a group of people and a few groups of people can make a difference.

But ok yeah I know its unpleasant so - yes dont watch it if you are easily shocked/upset!
 
hey JWMurph- i totally agree with you- it's horrific but it's happening and the more people sit up and take notice the more will be done to bring this totally barbaric and machoistic form of "sportsmanship" to an end.
We campaign continually in this country to relieve suffering of animals in countries such as Turkey, Thailand, China etc but the United States seems to have gone unnoticed - and in my mind this is some of the worst suffering as it's being done in the name of entertainment alone- at least in some other countries suffering is incurred because of abject poverty and a desperate attempt to survive often through the use of animals.
That video showed a complete disregard for any humanity and a level of ignorance which i find staggering in a supposedly modern society.
I will be forwarding the link to several organisations- congrats on finding this clip- i'm at work seething now!
 
I do actually care about what happens to these poor horses,i actually have done a lot in the way of trying to help horse cruelty.I got a pettion together to stop illegal horse slaughter in the States and managed to get 100 signatures.I just thought to myself it was a bit of a surprise to see something like that first thing in the morning.You sound very passionate about what you believe in and i respect that,keep up your enthusiasm to stop this cruelty,i'll back you all the way.Is there anything you could do,a petition or something.Our petition worked as the slaughter house in ? is being closed i was told.
 
I tried to watch it but it shut my comp down, but what i did see makes you wonder why people go to watch this "sport" and find it fun!
I do think we need to open our eyes and see what is going on in the world!
 
This is horrible and has made me really depressed now. Especially the calves that broke their necks.

I trained as an EDT in the states and went to a couple of rodeos and it is as brutal as it looks. Those cowboys are tough guys and dont particularly have much emotion!
 
How uncanny. I watched it last night on youtube as was searching for rodeos. Yes it sad but like all things wrong doings do happen. Just like dog fighting over here which is illegal. The main rodeos are very well maintained & the bulls/horses, stock are bred & reared for the job & looked after very well. They get less work than nearly all other horses I know!


STAMPEDE RANCH
The Calgary Stampede purchased it's ranch in 1961 in an effort to guarantee the production of bucking stock and improve its quality with a carefully managed "Born to Buck" breeding program.

The ranch covers about 20,500 acres of leased land and 1,500 acres of deeded property, broken down into 14 different pastures. There are 70 miles of fence.

Originally, the cost of the property was $200,000. It is valued today is in the $3.4 million range.

There are six species of native and tame grass, fed by an average of nine inches (or 22 cm) of precipitation each year. In addition to pasture, the stock is also given a ration of grain and hay when necessary; amounting to 220 tons of alfalfa and 22,000 bushels of oats annually.

Bullpound Creek crosses about six miles of the property, providing a natural source of water to the stock. In addition, there is an irrigation canal at the northeast end of the ranch and a pumping system to a series of dugouts.

The land is also resource rich, containing about 30 producing oil and gas wells.

Bucking stock shares existence with more than 20 species of birds, White Tail and Mule deer and Pronghorn antelope, seven different fur-bearing animals and six types of rodents.






GETTING READY FOR STAMPEDE
The horses that are brought to the Stampede are put on feed - oats and hay - about six weeks beforehand.

All except the Ponoka bunch will be returned to the ranch for R & R before getting back in the truck and coming to Calgary. Home at the Stampede grounds is a series of pens behind the infield stands. Throughout the 10 days of Stampede, the horses are shuffled back and forth between the ranch and the grounds so they don't have to stand in pens for the entire period.

The best horses, the "top end" as they're called, the Papa Smurfs, Go Wilds and Guilty Cats, will be bucked a maximum of three times - 24 seconds in all. Many will get two trips, some only one.

In June, one truck load, about 25 horses, is hauled to Innisfail, where they are bucked once at Jack Daine's ranch rodeo. Another load goes to Ponoka for their Stampede and three loads make the short trip down the road to the one-day "home rodeo" at Hand hills.



STOCK CONTRACTING
The Stampede produces several rodeos each year in Canada and supplies stock to many other rodeos in Western Canada and the United States. It also provides bucking horses for one-day convention rodeos in the city and sends its younger stock to rodeo schools and college rodeos. These horses are easily identified by the brand C lazy S on the left shoulder. The Calgary Stampede is one of the is one of the very few rodeos in the world with a registered brand of its own. Only one horse with the Stampede brand has ever been sold - that was a horse named "Hash Harrison", sold to James Harper of the Harper & Morgan outfit in Iowa, LA. The philosophy behind not selling horses carrying its brand is the fear that they could be mistreated and that might reflect back on its reputation.

The Stampede Ranch will send horses to about 20 rodeos each year. The longest haul is about 1,400 miles to Las Vegas in December. The truck stops once or twice en route to let the horses out for as much as a day and a night.







THE BUCKING STOCK BREEDING PROGRAM
In 1961, Stampede Executive and Committee agreed that 50 mares would be the foundation of the Stampede breeding program. Today, there are more than 400 horses living at the ranch, including 62 brood mares.

The cost of raising a bucking horse is not cheap; each one represents an investment of about $10,000 from the time they're born until they reach the age of five.

It's less expensive to buy a mature, but unproven, bucking horse at a sale. They go anywhere from $1,200 to $6,000, but spoiled saddle horses are on the decline with the improvement of breeding programs. At one time there was eight sales each year in Canada, but today there are only two. The value of a proven bucking horse, one that could be selected for the Canadian and world finals, runs from $8,000 to $50,000.

Horses obtained privately or through sales go through a month-long program before they are integrated into the Stampede home herd. They are branded, cleaned up, vaccinated and blood tested to insure they are disease-free. Then the new horses are held in a separate pasture so they get over a cold or anything else they may have picked up before arriving at the ranch.

Once they are introduced to the herd, pecking order is established and the new horses are slowly accepted into the herd.

Of the herd, only 165 are actually called on to perform in the arena and the busiest of those, maybe 30 of them - might be away from home for a total of 30 days a year. The most any of the horses will be asked to buck is about 15 times. That works out to 120 seconds (or two minutes) of labor per year. In return, these horses are fed oats and hay in addition to free-range grass, plus each gets its feet trimmed and hair done before each trip to town and they have free medical care.



Then there is the rest, the other 185 horses - stallions, mares and the prospects of the future, everything from weanlings to four-year-old's. The colts are not hauled until they are five, though they may get tried out a couple of times a year when they are three or four.
 
I couldn't watch the entire video as I could feel the anger rising. I also has the misfortune to log onto a link for a different forum that showed horses being slaughtered in the USA and Mexico also showed horrendous animal abuse yet still it goes on.
It seems to me that the US Government tend to turn a blind eye to this sort of thing, how often do we see rodeo's on Sky channels etc and it is just allowed to go on and on, it is not right that any animal has a rope tied around it's gut or balls so tight as to make it buck, WTF is wrong with those people.
I have seen some pretty nasty real life situations caused by RTA's and serious crime but the fact that a group of people pay to watch another group torture and abuse animals is utterly beyond me and may their cruelty catch up with them in some throroughly nasty way!
 
I couldn't see the video - wouldn't let me.

There is a big difference between these back-street rodeos and the professional rodeos......I am guessing that the one in the video was a back-street one.

Rodeos run and managed correctly are amazing. The horses are trained to exceptional levels and, when done correctly, it is true "man and horse in perfect harmony". As always in life, it is the minority which gives a bad name to the majority.
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Me neither ....... and I am an avid attender and I'm one of those people who watches everything that goes on! I only have praise and the utmost respect for all the cowboys I see at rodeos.
 
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I couldn't see the video - wouldn't let me.

There is a big difference between these back-street rodeos and the professional rodeos......I am guessing that the one in the video was a back-street one.

Rodeos run and managed correctly are amazing. The horses are trained to exceptional levels and, when done correctly, it is true "man and horse in perfect harmony". As always in life, it is the minority which gives a bad name to the majority.
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Thats what I was trying to say but didn't manage too!
I think they are amazing too. I am saving up to go to the Calgary Stampede!! Would really love to get into it!
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See ya there someday??
 
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