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According to reporting in the Independent, a New Zealand rodeo has been called out for animal abuse. Bulls, calves and horses have been subjected to violence at rodeo events.

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The violence against the animals includes electric shocks, slamming animals on their backs, and tying their legs together. Animal rights campaigners are against these actions. In some cases, animals’ backs, legs, and necks have been broken.

Anti Rodeo Action NZ found that secret footage shows cowboys using ropes to harm animals, twisting animal tails and pulling their ears, using ropes to throttle calves. Many animals are forced into a chute before action. “Some have gone down in the chute as they are fearful, others refuse to get into the chutes,” Lynn Charlton, of the action group, told the Independent.

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Charlton described the scene at rodeos, “Bulls are ridden and spurred in the flank; they are wrapped with an extremely tight rope. Excessive saliva pours from their open mouths. Some cry out. Their necks elongate frighteningly. Some get their heads trapped beneath their necks, preventing breathing while inhaling dust and dirt. Some defecate in fear. People pull the legs out behind steers while someone else pulls the steer’s head in another direction. Some collapse to the ground.”

To learn more about why calf roping is bad, and how animals are treated at rodeos, check out these articles:

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