Sorry for this...but if racing is cruel than what is this...

[kayleigh_and_rocky]

http://www.m90.org/index.php?id=12864 Warning i found this distressing to watch but maybe im just a pansy?
At least in racing the horses love doing it and they DO have the choice.
THIS is just plain cruel, the horses are clearly distressed. I put this in the other racing post but i thought it deserved a post in itself. I wish this could be stopped. It surely puts racing in perspective?

 

[melle]

can't watch it at work - what is it??

 

[hayliana]

excuse my language but... jesus f***ing christ...

 

[kayleigh_and_rocky]

Its at a rodeo, wild horses are in the arena and the competition is to catch them get on them and ride over the finsih line. some of the horses on the video are wrestled to the ground all are clearly distressed and it ends in two horses having a head on collision at gallop, 1breaks its neck but both survive.

 

[Greyhound]

Good grief that is ****ing truely awful - there can surely be no defense for this kind of behaviour

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Make me very sad and very angry.

They ties a strap around the horses back by the bottom legs so they buck and rear and run in fright.

GH

 

[Beanyowner]

That is just awful!!!

I'd like to rope them up and see how they like it...those poor horses just look terrified!!!!

 

[Aleka81]

I can't believe that. It's horrendous!

 

[kayleigh_and_rocky]

And we're complaining about racing while this is going on? It puts it into perspective doesnt it. i cried when i saw it

 

[smokeybabes]

Its the "old traditional" way of truely "breaking" a horse in! Get better of it! Not nice.
Confused how horse broke its neck and survived though.

 

[Folara]

That is very distressing. I am disgusted and appalled at the heights of cruelty some people go to under the guise of 'entertainment'.

Tears in my eyes.

 

[melle]

That sounds awful.

 

[kayleigh_and_rocky]

Yeah i know i was confused about that too but it did (aparently) survive it. Its now been made into a sport and can you believe i found that on a 'funny videos' site?

 

[marmite]

That is so horrid those little twats want stringing up horse have pain barriers and feeling.

 

[lordflynn]

well, rodeo is cruel, bronos only bronc due to cinches round their loins-that doesnt make racing not cruel though! (am fence sitting!)
I hate rodeo!

 

[hayliana]

oh and you arent a pansy by the way, this post should have a big warning sign as that vid is really distressing. that aside, people should watch this if only to be made aware of what goes on at some rodeos. these horses are scared out of their wits, get beaten, have their will broken, and then one even ends up with a broken neck. god knows what happens to them after the competition.

 

[Doreys_Mum]

I hate rodeos.

 

[Greyhound]

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And we're complaining about racing while this is going on? It puts it into perspective doesnt it. i cried when i saw it

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Really heart wrenching

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On a basis for a direct comparison yes it does put racing into perspective. In respect to racing the majority cases the horses are well cared for, have all their needs met and they are trained. Race horses run as part of their nature make up. However I am making the assumption that these horses are wrenched from the wild and trussed up to create a reaction for public spectating sport with awful disasterous consequences.

GH

 

[kayleigh_and_rocky]

It really does, for me at least, put ALOT into perspective, including racing and the hunting ban...all those sorts of things. this sport truly should be banned. sickening. very sad.

 

[PapaFrita]

OMG!!!! How fecking horrible!! That is a disgraceful display of brutality! I don't care what the vet says about that skewbald, he was NOT ok. Watch him get up, poor sod (if you can bear to get that far because it's terrible!)

 

[RunToEarth]

That is sick...that is the most disturbing thing I have seen for a long while.

 

[kayleigh_and_rocky]

Sorry to have shown you all this but when i found it i was so so distressed i had to share it, especially in light of certain other sports being called cruel. Brought me back to earth with a bang, so horrible.

 

[alfirules]

that is jus so disgusting! i want those ppl to die in the most horrible way they can! something has got to be done about it! other countries r so cruel to their animals, on new years day in spain, i think, they throw a donkey off a church tower to celebrate, it is terrible!

 

[Aleka81]

Where in spain???

 

[alfirules]

i dont know, i jus read it somewhere a while back.

 

[Kelly1982]

That has made me feel physically sick!!!!

How can people treat animals like this is beyond me??

 

[Aleka81]

Cruelty

This is v. disturbing. I think this must be where you read about it?

Be warned this is truly disturbing!

 

[Enfys]

Couldn't view it, but if it is what I think it is then I am pretty sure that it was described fairly graphically in one of Monty Roberts' books, his autobiography perhaps?

Poor horses,...what an introduction " this is a person, this is rope and this a saddle, person on saddle on you, now gallop. Oh, and by the way those gawping faces are more people........welcome to your world!"

 

[juliehannah58]

That's horrid and I agree, that horse was NO WAY alright, by any stretch of the imagination!

It's horrible but to be honest these things happen all the time. What about dancing bears? etc etc the list is endless. I agree it does make you think about racing and hunting etc but IMO they just vary in levels of cruelty. Some nationalities don't view animals in the same light as us lot and most acts of this kind come from people trying to entertain the Human Race

It's all a mess

 

[Sooty]

Sorry, but those horses look about as wild as I do! They are in fantastic condition and have their ears forward. I wouldn't take too much notice of the commentary, or the 'veterinarian'. Those horses don't look like two year olds either. I was referring to the rodeo, not the fiesta. The Spanish fiestas are notoriously cruel, they are indefensible, especially the one that involves an overloaded donkey.

 

[lizzie_liz]

that is so damn cruel, and to think people even pay to watch so called 'entertainment'
that skewbald can't have survived it could barely stand let alone walk
can't believe it was on a funny video site