A picture is worth a thousand words, they say.
This is a rodeo event in White Swan, WA called the Treaty Days Rodeo. Apparently this event is one of the highlights for the kiddos. You wrangle a foal, climb aboard, and drag it around three barrels and back to the judges. Looks like a blast, eh?
Yeah, that foal looks like he's just having the time of his life.
What PURPOSE does this event hold? What reason is there for putting your children out there to wrangle a frightened foal.
And here I thought my post about ignorant fools putting their kids on weanlings was bad. While those pictures from that blog just annoyed me, this one sickens me. How can this be described as anything but flat out cruelty to these foals? Sure, you'll get simpletons bleating that a kid riding a foal "probably won't cause damage" or that dragging the foal around by it's head "won't hurt it any once or twice." You know what? Go ahead. Condone it. That makes you no better than the people who organized this disgusting event.
You can visit the website of this rodeo here. (Fair warning, the website will make your eyes bleed. Looks like they can't be bothered to get a decent webmaster.) Write them and tell them how much they disgust you.
You can view these images and others from this rodeo here.
Bullshit events like this give true rodeo a bad name. There is absolutely no reason to allow this kind of nonsense to continue. Not only does this event serve no purpose, it's cruel as well. Someone compared it to the "Dinner Bell Race" where mares are led down a track and the foals "race" back to them. There is no comparison. The foals in that race run, unfettered by the weight of someone's brat, back to mama, and are happy.
THESE foals on the other hand . . . well, if you can't see the difference for yourself, you probably shouldn't call yourself a horse person.
I cannot believe something this awful is not only allowed, but it is a public event! This is just sick!
ReplyDeleteI don't know who you think you are, but that also doesn't make you any better of a person either, just to talk s**t about how natives have rodeos and how kids are involved. You are no better than anyone else. Because this article just shows how much you don't like how Yakamas run their rodeo. It's pretty simple, if you don't like it, then don't watch it and get to steppin. No one doesn't need your negative words about how they do things. No one didn't ask for your opinion, no one didn't ask for mine either but I'm still going to say what's on my mind. But don't get me wrong, I understand you care for the wildlife and the animals. I love animals as well, but still, these are some of the ways they grew up with. Be mad all you want though it's not going to make a difference, you're judging the way they do things because you see something you don't like? Well who are you to judge? You are no better than than anyone else. Only God can judge.
ReplyDeleteHey you goat fuker truly this event is done as a cultural thing as I am Yakama grew up in Toppenish all my life grew up around the Toppenish pow-wow, treaty days, Ellensburg Rodeo, Jack pot rodeos, pickup Rodeo, Pendleton Round-Up Go to Pow wow all the time. If you want to get technical this is actually probably the most Humane even at a rodeo you got bronc riding that they use Spurs and fukin gouges sh!t out of fukin horses you got bull riding they fukin strap the fukin nuts uptight using Spurs again to gouge spurred the shitt out of the bull Barrel Racers use rein the shitt out of their horses and most of these horses you're talking about come off the hills from around White Swan Toppenish Wapato and are the horses that you guys are like oh we need to get rid of them they're destroying everything I don't want them in with my purebred quarter horse in my purebred Arabian I really wish this would give the accent of giving right now cuz you're all fucknuts also people that got into the breeding section of this theme get millions and millions of dollars to breed stock just for these events
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