#rodeos

[theinternetarchive]

olson negatives box 008, image 0050: woman at a california rodeo, richard olson, c. 1920

[atypicalattractions]

Rodeos are cruel and I feel like that needs to be pointed out more 

Most events inherently involve stressing an animal out (bull/bronco riding, steer wrestling, calf roping, etc.) and have a high risk of killing, injuring, or at least causing physical pain to the animal

And even the ones that could be done more ethically (like barrel racing) aren’t done ethically 90% of the time

Not to mention the cruelty is exacerbated by people intentionally trying to harm the animals by beating, kicking, shocking, and stabbing them. Which happens more than you would think.

It sucks to see rodeos be glorified by so many people without anyone acknowledging how inhumane they are and I’m saying this as someone who grew up around that kind of culture

[cowboyshadows]

soap cat

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads open with a big hammer pronto, before Death arrives.” ― George Saunders

[goldrushenthusiast]

Will has definitely taken Nico to a rodeo before, just saying

[hetzenkruga]

Annnd I've also done Shane

The horse Shane is riding was featured in the fools drawing I did its name is Opal and the appaloosa is called Drewie

[arconinternet]

Bodacious: The Master of Disaster (Video, 1996)

A video about Bodacious, one of the seventeen bulls and cows that have their own Wikipedia pages. You can watch it here.