Petition: Demand Authorities in Illinois Put an End to Sadistic Private Rodeos

Video evidence shows that private rodeos in northern Illinois have become hotspots for animal abuse.

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Drone surveillance shows riders at the rodeos violently beating horses, slapping and punching them right in the face. Yet another video depicts people torturing animals with electric prods, causing the animals to scream in pain. In a third piece of footage, someone paralyzes a deer, drags them away by their horns, and then callously shoots them to death in a barn.

That’s not even including the countless oxen and steer that are violently abused during the rodeos, as humans pummel them to the ground dozens of times until their bones are broken and they lay bleeding out for hours on end.

According to Steve Hindi, a member of Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK): “They’re not hiding it. They know our drones are up there, that our drones are looking right at them, and they will still beat the living daylights out of these animals.”

At least two different groups of animal welfare advocates say they have submitted ample evidence to the police, but there hasn’t been any movement. This is even though animal cruelty is a crime in Illinois – meaning police have a legal mandate to enforce animal protection policies!

Please sign this petition to demand authorities finally intervene and put an end to animal cruelty at these rodeos!

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