From Animal Defenders of Westchester (ADOW)

We advocate on all animal protection and exploitation issues, including experimentation, factory farming, rodeos, breeders and traveling animal acts.

Time to end Cruel Rodeos

Letter as published on NYDailyNews.com
May 14, 2025

Tuckahoe, N.Y.: To Voicer Eric Mills: Thank you for your excellent, compassionate letter calling for a worldwide ban on the horrific rodeo event “calf-roping,” also known as clotheslining — chasing and roping babies by the neck, then tying their legs together. Rodeo events are all created by frightening animals. The most prevalent, bull riding, is based on abuse and lies. Bulls are trucked hundreds of miles in packed cars without food or water (don’t want them making a mess in the arena). While fans scream and lights flash, these peaceful, intelligent animals are hit, shocked with electric prods, gored with spurs, etc. to make them appear wild, then frantically buck when a strap or rope is yanked around their sensitive underbelly. Let the growing interest in the Old West not be tainted by celebrating cruelty. Several rodeo events have been banned already. As people learn about animal sentience, this miserable relic will disappear.

Kiley Blackman

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