Dark Secrets Of Rodeos

Perhaps the most obvious issue with rodeos is that the animals get severely injured both during and outside the events. Animal Legal Defense Fund enumerates "broken ribs, backs, and legs, torn tails, punctured lungs, internal organ damage, ripped tendons, torn ligaments, snapped necks, and agonizing deaths" as usual consequences of rodeo events. Peggy W. Larson, a veterinarian, researcher, and former rider, spoke out against rodeos on SHARK and emphasized the numerous ways in which animals can suffer at the hands of riders.

In the process of steer tripping, the rider throws a rope around the bull's horns and then quickly pulls it while the bull is running at top speed. This tips its head at least 180 degrees so that the animal falls, and the rider then drags it on the ground and ropes its legs to score. This can result in broken necks, bones, horns, and several lacerations on the skin. It's not any better in the case of bronc riding, where horses often die while crashing blindly into the fencing. Dr. C. G. Haber, a veterinarian with extensive experience, offers arguably the most awful description (via SHARK): "I have seen cattle so extensively bruised that the only areas in which the skin was attached was the head, neck, legs, and belly. I have seen animals with six to eight ribs broken from the spine and at times puncturing the lungs."

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