Rodeo Eddie: The Newest Voice of Rodeo Family Values
Rodeo Eddie, as we call him, responded to one of SHARK's Horse Shocking videos on YouTube by sending us a video of his own.
Rodeo Eddie took days to prepare and post his proud videos in defense of the Cheyenne Frontier Days on YouTube.com, and you can click HERE to see all three. WARNING: The obscenities, racism, homophobia and generally repulsive behavior in the videos is sadly, in our experience, pretty typical of the average rodeo supporter. And inexplicably, Rodeo Eddie doesn't like the Toyota Prius either.
Denver's National Western Rodeo Loses Major Sponsor!
Watch the video: "Marriott Hotels says "NO!" to Rodeo Cruelty" then click here to learn more!
Born to Buck Lie Exposed at Tucson Rodeo
February 2008: SHARK captured horse shocking once again, this time at a PRCA rodeo in Arizona. Tucson media jumped to cover the story, and you can see some of the coverage here: KVOA News 4, Arizona Daily Star, KOLD News 13
Denver Rodeo Vet Maulsby Lied to MediaRead the whole story! Read the letter SHARK sent to Denver's City Attorney regarding their "sham" of an investigation.
New Video Released Linking Denver Rodeo Abuse with CO State Vet's Dirty Past
Click here to watch this video full size on Google.
Why is a man like Dr. John Maulsby chair of the Animal Care and Use Committee at the National Western Rodeo? Because, just like the Rodeo Mafia, what he cares about is the 'use' of the animals not the care!
National Finals Rodeo Exposed for Tampering and Use of Hidden Torture Tools!
SHARK's Biggest Bust Ever: The Superbowl of Rodeo Rigged by Top-Level Officials! Read more HERE.
Head stock contractor, Ike Sankey, shocks a horse at the 2007 Pendleton Round-Up.
"Born to Buck" Exposed Again Not only do bulls have to be hit, electrically shocked, and tormented with wires, flank straps, and other devices make them "perform"--now a new tactic has been exposed. Steroid injections. No, not for the cowboy wannabees, but for the so-called "mean, rank, killer" bulls. Read more...
Another horse killed in rodeo's "Wild Horse Race." 3 horses in 3 months have been killed in rodeos in Oregon. How many have to die before this cruel event is stopped? Read the article here.
Former PRCA Commissioner's Plea Deal Thrown Out
There has been a shocking turn of events in the case of attorney and wannabe cowboy Troy Ellerman, rodeo commmish, who was exposed as the source of the BALCO grand jury leak. The judge seeing the case rejected Ellerman's plea deal as not punitive enough.
Read the latest article HERE.
Read about the Ellerman saga from the beginning on SHARK's site HERE.
Scandal Continues to Surround National High School Rodeo Assn.
While the PRCA is busy trying to hold its tattered seams together, the National High School Rodeo Association is doing their best to keep the hush on the news about their longtime major sponsor, Lancaster's Rock-n-Roll Rodeo Gear. Larry Lancaster, of Lancaster's Rock-n-Roll Rodeo Gear, was recently convicted on several counts, including sexual assault on a child. Full story here.
Cloverdale Rodeo bans four cruel events! Breaking ranks with the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association, one of the largest rodeos in Canada responds to the deaths of animals at their rodeo.
Troy Ellerman and Troy Gentry are two of the sorriest excuses for men one is ever likely to find. Both men are liars, criminals, and have demonstrated contempt for the ethics and morals that guide decent people through their lives. But perhaps the tie that binds these characters together most closely is that they are both connected to the world of rodeo. Read on...
The Horse magazine ponies up with PRCA abusers, betrays horses: In March 2007 the magazine, The Horse published as its cover story an article by editor Kimberly Brown glorifying the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association's animal welfare "standards." It stands as one of the saddest excuses for journalism ever printed. Read more...
Why is Illinois' Governor giving tens of thousands of taxpayers' dollars to the same rodeo that has been documented as violating the Humane Care Act and countless other humane guidelines? Why does Illinois fail to enforce their laws when it comes to rodeo abuse? Go to IllinoisCorruption.com to learn more!
Meet Michael Latting: Rodeo Stock Contractor, Convicted Animal Abuser and High School Principal!
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SHARK knows the Rodeo Mafia doesn't care about animals, but now it's proving
that it doesn't care about humans either! More...
Why did a popular veteran radio talk show host lose his job after planning a
show about the rodeo? More...
Forget The Myth!
Forget the myth of rodeos as all-American sport. Rodeos are cruel and deadly for animals, corrupt through and through, and the crimes of rodeo people go far beyond animals, with horrific and despicable behavior that shocks the senses of decent people. These are strong words, but we back them up with undeniable and irrefutable documentation.
SHARK investigators film through the rodeo announcers' hype to show the stark reality of animal cruelty, injuries, and deaths that are inherent to the rodeo industry. Go to TheCruelTruth.com to see footage exposing the horrors that come to horses, steers, and calves in rodeos all across America.
A real sport is one in which all participants are willing, and that surely is not the case with the rodeo. Rodeo associations claim very few animals are injured and killed in rodeos. That is a lie. In fact, rodeo associations do not disclose animal injuries and deaths. If these records were made public, the rodeo world would certainly lose both its fans and corporate sponsors. Furthermore, those who commit humane violations are granted anonymity.
What happens when you have an activity wherein the animals' abusers aren't identified, and neither are the victims? A spectacle of cruelty, cowardice and corruption. Go to PRCAfacts.com to see the repulsive truth about the world's largest rodeo association, on which other rodeo associations are modeled. Go to ShameOnCheyenne.com to read about the corruption of one of the most infamous rodeos in the world. At IllinoisCorruption.com you can see how the rodeo world corrupted an entire state government.
CLICK HERE to find out why an expert panel of veterinarians recommends banning flank straps, spurs, bullriding, and the "wild" horse race from rodeo.
Speaking of corruption, rodeo also brings out the lowest of the low when it comes to corporations. Rodeo in fact survives on the sponsorship money of corporations who want to make a profit at any cost to animals. Companies like AT&T/Cingular Wireless, Coca-Cola, DaimlerChrysler and others are willing to fund rodeo animal abusers, ignore the enormous amount of evidence of the abuse, and all the while claim to adhere to the "highest corporate ethics". In return, rodeo announcers do a job of brown-nosing and sucking up to the careless corps that is frankly embarrassing. Caring people will want to go to CorporateThugs.com to identify and avoid these careless corporate profiteers.
It isn't just corporations who give welfare handouts to rodeo animal abusers. When it comes to government money, the Rodeo Mafia become Welfare Cowboys. Go to RodeoWelfare.com to see the outrageous use of tax dollars that are utterly wasted on money-grubbing, animal-abusing rodeo thugs.
When it comes to rodeo, there are two types of media. Reporters who are lazy, careless, or whose integrity is for sale, write glowing stories of the rodeo. The more you ignore the facts, the better the rewards you may receive from the rodeo industry. Go to MediaVillains.com to learn about these Yellow Journalists.
Fortunately, there are also reporters who still believe in writing the truth and in journalistic ethics. Go to ReportersWhoCare.com to see what REAL journalists have to say about the Rodeo Mafia.
Horse lovers should also see HorseKillers.com to learn about the Rodeo Mafia's determined efforts to see horse slaughter kept legal so they can make even more money off their broken equine victims, no matter what the cost in suffering and terror.
Bad Reception:
AT&T/Cingular Wireless has become a major sponsor and "Exclusive Wireless Provider" for the largest rodeo-sanctioning organization in the world, the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA). Contact AT&T and tell them you care more about compassion than their cell phone service! Go to ATTcruelty.com and learn more.
Rodeos could not exist without corporate sponsors that help make rodeo animal abuse profitable. We expose these heartless, ethically-bankrupt companies at www.CorporateThugs.com.
Rodeo Associations These guys specialize in propaganda and so-called humane rules that are never enforced.More...
Rodeo Stock Contractors Go to any rodeo, even the smallest and most insignificant, and you will hear that it has the world's "meanest & wildest" animals, and the "greatest cowboys". Rodeo stock contractors claim their animals are "born to buck." According to the announcer at even the sorriest, most silly affair, it is a "world championship rodeo." The truth isn't nearly as impressive. More...
Many of the videos on SHARK's sites are available via YouTube. In response to a false copyright claim by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA), YouTube pulled down nearly 40 videos on December 13, 2007 that SHARK had created from our investigative footage.
Although we have had rodeo videos posted on our site for years, SHARK's footage of animal abuse, injuries, and deaths at PRCA rodeos was getting more widespread attention on YouTube than ever before. The rodeo industry can't withstand that kind of honest attention, and they know it. The PRCA doesn't want you or their sponsors to be able to see what really happens at their rodeos.
SHARK has successfully fought back and all our videos are again available worldwide. See what the PRCA is so scared of at TheCruelTruth.com.
Does your veterinarian care about animals?
Not if he or she supports the guidelines and policies of the American Veterinary Medical Association! Read the AVMA official policies!